TY - JOUR
T1 - António Nobre, “A nossa maior poetisa?”
AU - Ladeira, António
N1 - Funding Information:
This research supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81901699 and 81802707), Special Support Program of Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center (16zxtzlc06), the Health & Medical Collaborative Innovation Project of Guangzhou City, China (201604020003), the Natural Science Founda- tion of Guang Dong Province (2017A030312003), Health & Medical Collaborative Innovation Project of Guangzhou City, China (201803040003), the Innovation Team Development Plan of the Ministry of Education (IRT_17R110), and the Overseas Expertise Introduction Project for Discipline Innovation (111 Project, B14035). The authors sincerely thank Yiducloud (Beijing) Technology Ltd. for the establishment of Big-data intelligence platform at Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Centre and their assistance during the data extraction process.
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PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This article aims to study the representations of gender and, particularly, “masculinity” in the poetry of the nineteenth-century Portuguese author António Nobre. In it, I use a theoretical approach that is rarely used to study Lusophone literatures and Lusophone poetry, in particular: gender studies and masculinity studies with references to sociological and anthropological models that study the construction of masculinity. The article’s argument is anchored in an oft-quoted sentence once uttered by the poet Teixeira de Pascoaes when asked whether he admired the poetry of António Nobre. Pascoaes famously said: “Of course I like him, he is our greatest poetess!” Besides constituting a provocation, the sentence provides glimpses into the sexual codes of behavior (and of poetic production) that were prevalent in Portugal during the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century. Among other things, these codes define the kinds of poetry that a man should and should not write. By looking into the social (and sociological) implications and assumptions behind Pascoaes’s provocative sentence—against the background of António Nobre’s own sexually subversive poetry—I hope to shed light both on the gendered nature of Portuguese normative poetics during the times of António Nobre and Teixeira de Pascoaes; and on the way António Nobre subverts these genderic mandates in his poetry.
AB - This article aims to study the representations of gender and, particularly, “masculinity” in the poetry of the nineteenth-century Portuguese author António Nobre. In it, I use a theoretical approach that is rarely used to study Lusophone literatures and Lusophone poetry, in particular: gender studies and masculinity studies with references to sociological and anthropological models that study the construction of masculinity. The article’s argument is anchored in an oft-quoted sentence once uttered by the poet Teixeira de Pascoaes when asked whether he admired the poetry of António Nobre. Pascoaes famously said: “Of course I like him, he is our greatest poetess!” Besides constituting a provocation, the sentence provides glimpses into the sexual codes of behavior (and of poetic production) that were prevalent in Portugal during the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century. Among other things, these codes define the kinds of poetry that a man should and should not write. By looking into the social (and sociological) implications and assumptions behind Pascoaes’s provocative sentence—against the background of António Nobre’s own sexually subversive poetry—I hope to shed light both on the gendered nature of Portuguese normative poetics during the times of António Nobre and Teixeira de Pascoaes; and on the way António Nobre subverts these genderic mandates in his poetry.
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U2 - 10.3368/lbr.54.2.93
DO - 10.3368/lbr.54.2.93
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85041211246
VL - 54
SP - 93
EP - 107
JO - Luso-Brazilian Review
JF - Luso-Brazilian Review
SN - 0024-7413
IS - 2
ER -