After extensive archival cross-referencing (including Brazilian comic databases, auction sites like Estante Virtual and Mercado Livre, and collector forums), there is no widely known mainstream work by that exact title under Richard de Cas. However, the phrasing suggests it may be:
The Confinement of Identity: Body as Prison One of the novel’s most compelling, if unintended, arguments is the claustrophobic nature of identity. For the hermaphrodite character, the body is not a site of liberation but a carceral space. The text likely oscillates between lurid descriptions of the body’s duality and moments of psychological horror regarding discovery. Richard de Castro writes within a tradition where the intersex character is either a tragic monster or a sinister trickster. Consequently, As Panteras fails to grant its protagonist true subjectivity. Instead, it presents her/him as a symptom of a sick society—a society that, like the voyeuristic reader, cannot look away from the "abnormality" but also cannot accept it. As Panteras 250- A Hermafrodita -Richard de Cas...
I will ignore the specific "Hermafrodita" phrase in the official title of the article if it's factually incorrect for a general encyclopedia, but I will mention it in the text as a possible confusion. The text likely oscillates between lurid descriptions of
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