Elizabeth Bishop’s Queer ecocriticism in "Bras/zil"
This article demonstrates that, while Elizabeth Bishp voiced her reservations against the essentialist logic of gender, she built an anti-essentialist poetics of gender to engage the vulnerability of her position as a poet of the Anglo-American literary establishment who, historically and thus unav...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Federal Fluminense
2012-12-01
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| Series: | Gragoatá |
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| Online Access: | http://www.gragoata.uff.br/index.php/gragoata/article/view/104 |
| Summary: | This article demonstrates that, while Elizabeth Bishp voiced her reservations against the essentialist logic of gender, she built an anti-essentialist poetics of gender to engage the vulnerability of her position as a poet of the Anglo-American literary establishment who, historically and thus unavoidably, represented the sovereign subject’s voice and gaze over Brazil. I argue for an ecocritial reading of the conflict between the poet’s stated refusal of a gendered authorial identity for herself and, by contrast, her construction of a gendered geopolitical identity for the other. My aim is twofold: to consider what happens when the normative genders of geopolitics are unsettled; and, finally, to feed the debate, proposed by Silviano Santiago, as to the ethical value of Bishop’s representations of Brazil. |
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| ISSN: | 1413-9073 2358-4114 |