Lusosex : Gender And Sexuality In The Portuguese-Speaking World /

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Challenging static notions of sexualities within the Portuguese-speaking world, these essays expand our understanding of the multiplicity of differences and marginalized subjectivities that fall under the intersections of sexuality, gender, and race.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Arenas, Fernando, 1963-, Quinlan, Susan Canty, 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Seksualiteit.
Sekseverschillen.
Portugees.
Bellettrie.
Sex in popular culture.
Sex in literature.
Sex customs.
Portuguese literature.
Brazilian literature.
African literature (Portuguese)
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Spanish & Portuguese.
Vie sexuelle > Lusophonie.
Sexualite dans la culture populaire > Lusophonie.
Sexualite dans la litterature.
Litterature africaine (portugaise) > Histoire et critique.
Litterature portugaise > Histoire et critique.
Litterature bresilienne > Histoire et critique.
Sex customs > Portuguese-speaking countries.
Sex in popular culture > Portuguese-speaking countries.
African literature (Portuguese) > History and criticism.
Portuguese literature > History and criticism.
Brazilian literature > History and criticism.
Portugal.
Brazilië.
Portuguese-speaking countries.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Tivira, the man with the broken butt : same-sex practices among Brazilian Indians / João Silverio Trevisan
  • Machado de Assis and Graciliano Ramos : speculations on sex and sexuality / John Gledson
  • Fernando Pessoa's gay heteronym? / Richard Zenith
  • Brazilian homoerotics : subjectivity and representation in the fiction of Gilberto Freyre / Jossianna Arroyo
  • Fictions of the impossible : Clarice Lispector, Lúcio Cardoso, and "Impossibilidade" / Severino João Albuquerque
  • Loving in the lands of Portugal : sex in women's fictions and the nationalist order / Ana Paula Ferreira
  • Not just for love, pleasure, or procreation : eroto-racial, socio-political, and mystic-mythical discourses of sexuality in Pepetela's A geraã̧o da utopia / Russell G. Hamilton
  • Border writing, post-coloniality, and critical difference in the works of Orlanda Amarílis / Phyllis Peres
  • "I was Evita," or Ecce femina : Lídia Jorge's The murmuring coast / Ronald W. Sousa
  • Supermen and Chiquita Bacana's daughters : transgendered voices in Brazilian popular music / Cesar Braga-Pinto
  • Cross-dressing : Silviano Santiago's fictional performances / Susan Canty Quinlan
  • Small epiphanies in the night of the world : the writing of Caio Fernando Abreu / Fernando Arenas
  • The impossible body : queering the nation in modern Portuguese dance / Andre Torres Lepecki
  • Al Berto, in memoriam : the Luso queer principle / Mario Cesar Lugarinho.

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