REPRESENTAÇÕES LITERÁRIAS DA IDENTIDADE E DA ALTERIDADE EM TORNO DE ESTEREÓTIPOS DA CEGUEIRA.

This study aims at analyzing fictive representations of identity interplays between self and otherness in a contemporary literary narrative. Such configurations of identities and differences have been analyzed by means of an interdisciplinary approach to the minimalist short story "Cathedral" (1983) by American author Raymond Carver. The literary text problematizes the stereotypes involving otherness in terms of race, gender and physical disabilities. In such a duel of masculine performances, the first-person narrator is forced to negotiate symbolically his own phobias and anxieties concerning the differences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]