“The wasp factory” by Iain Banks and the legal imbroglio of identity subversions

Abstract

The legal recognition of issues involving social minorities is a relevant challenge of the present that has immediate consequences on Brazilian political and social development. In this context, institutions perform a fundamental role in enabling qualitatively different people to participate in social life on an equal basis with others. In the case of the LGBTI+ population, as in the case of trans and intersex children and youth, object of the reflection now proposed, these inclusion challenges consist of difficulties such as combating transphobia, acceptance in society and their authentication as a subject of rights. Analyzing the law from the literary critical perspective of the novel The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks, the present work proposes a new conception of the prescriptive social-historical matrix that dogmatizes gender identities and their power relations, consequently compromising the state to notice their subjects and guarantee their inherent rights as a way of emancipating them from the conservative traditional popular culture.