Marginación y resistencia discursiva de los “jotos” en Fruta Verde, de Enrique Serna

This article offers to analyse how phenomena of gay discursive marginalisation and resistance in the intrafictional context of late 1970s Mexico manifest in the novel Fruta verde. The novel’s polyphonic narrative allows a glimpse at the variability of the notion of sexual norm and questions the legitimacy of an ideological centre unequivocally valorising reproductive heterosexuality and casting any divergent sexual or gender expression outside the boundary of human experience. In accordance with the dialogical form of the novel, the analysis shall focus first on the characteristics and mechanism of homophobic discourse conveyed by the voice of the mother who embodies family as an institution and the straight mind, then on the capacity of the stigmatised gay community to react and resist. It shall eventually consider the doubly dissenting character of Germán, whose position is intermediary, neither central nor marginal, and who rejects any notion of gender and sexual fixity.