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This volume sets out to investigate queer literature and cinema, exploring in particular the intersection of issues of gender and Lusophone culture. The essays collected here present individual case studies within a queer theoretical framework, examining the ways in which queer identities are constructed and addressed through different types of cultural production. More specifically, they consider Portuguese and Lusophone socio-cultural contexts and the representation of gender in popular culture, as well as the centrality of literature and cinema in the subversion of heteronormative social norms.
List of contents
CONTENTS: Denise Saive: «The lover becomes the thing beloved»: Queering Love in Os Lusiadas - Alda Maria Lentina: Novas Cartas Portuguesas: Mariana Alcoforado and her Hysterical, Lesbian and Nymphomaniac Avatars - Paulo Pepe: Beyond Manhood: The Fluctuating Queerness in Jorge de Sena's Sinais de Fogo - Fernando Curopos: The (In)Visible Currents of João Miguel Fernandes Jorge - Mark Sabine: «Poeta castrado, não!»: Queerness and Masculinity in the Poetry of Ary dos Santos - Ana Raquel Fernandes: A Poetics of Resistance: Four Exceptional Voices in Twentieth and Twenty-first-century Portugal - António Fernando Cascais: Now and at the Hour: Pain and Transfiguration in Joaquim Pinto's What Now? Remind Me - Maria Araújo da Silva: Identity, Gender and Sexuality in Helder Macedo's Natália - Anneliese Hatton: Is our Future our Past? Futurity Theory and the Novels of valter hugo mãe - Severino J. Albuquerque: Queering Pan-Americanism: Counternational Politics in Tulio Carella's Recife Diaries, 1960-1961 - Emanuelle Santos: Queer Identities at the Margins of Literature in Portuguese-speaking Africa - Mário César Lugarinho: Gender and Sexuality and Beyond the Latest Cape Verdean Literature - Miguel Vale de Almeida: Intersecting Labour, Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Lusophone Colonial-Postcolonial Continuum.
About the author
Paulo Pepe is a Lecturer in Portuguese Studies at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Do Pop ao Teatro de Rua: Revoluções Ibéricas de Género em António Variações e José Pérez Ocaña and has also published articles on aspects of gender in the Iberian context.
Ana Raquel Fernandes lectures in English at the Universidade Europeia in Lisbon and is a researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies. She is the author of What about the Rogue? (Honourable Mention, ESSE Book Awards, 2012) and has also published on aspects of British and Portuguese contemporary fiction.
