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1 online resource |
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Introduction -- Tivira, the man with the broken butt : same-sex practices among Brazilian Indians / João Silvério 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 / César 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 / André Torres Lepecki -- Al Berto, in memoriam : the Luso queer principle / Mario César Lugarinho |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Brazilian literature -- History and criticism
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Portuguese literature -- History and criticism
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African literature (Portuguese) -- History and criticism
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Sex in literature.
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Sex in popular culture -- Portuguese-speaking countries
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Sex customs -- Portuguese-speaking countries
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
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African literature (Portuguese)
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Brazilian literature
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Portuguese literature
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Sex customs
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Sex in literature
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Sex in popular culture
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Bellettrie.
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Portugees.
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Sekseverschillen.
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Seksualiteit.
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Portuguese-speaking countries
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Brazilië.
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Portugal.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Quinlan, Susan Canty, 1948-
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Arenas, Fernando, 1963-
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| ISBN |
9780816693528 |
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0816693528 |
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