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Some of the most compelling theoretical debates in the humanities today center on representations of sexuality. This volume is the first to focus on the topic-in particular, the connections between nationhood, sex, and gender-in the lusophone, or Portuguese-speaking, world. Written by prominent scholars in Brazilian, Portuguese, and Lusophone African literary and cultural studies, the essays range across multiple discourses and cultural expressions, historical periods and theoretical approaches to offer a uniquely comprehensive perspective on the issues of sex and sexuality in the literature and culture of the Portuguese-speaking world that extends from Portugal to Brazil to Angola, Cape Verde, and Mozambique. Through the critical lenses of gay and lesbian studies, queer theory, postcolonial studies, feminist theory, and postmodern theory, the authors consider the work of such influential literary figures as Clarice Lispector and Silviano Santiago. An important aspect of the volume is the publication of a newly discovered-and explicitly homoerotic-poem by Fernando Pessoa, published here for the first time in the original Portuguese and in English translation. Chapters take up questions of queer performativity and activism, female subjectivity and erotic desire, the sexual customs of indigenous versus European Brazilians, and the impact of popular music (as represented by Caetano Veloso and others) on interpretations of gender and sexuality. 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. Contributors: Severino João Albuquerque, U of Wisconsin; Jossianna Arroyo, U of Michigan; César Braga-Pinto, Rutgers; Ana Paula Ferreira, U of California, Irvine; John Gledson, U of Liverpool; Russell G. Hamilton, Vanderbilt; André Torres Lepecki; Mário César Lugarinho, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil; Phyllis Peres, U of Maryland; Ronald W. Sousa, U of Illinois; João Silvério Trevisan; Richard Zenith.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
  2. pp. i-vi
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-x
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xi-xii
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  1. Introduction
  2. Fernando Arenas and Susan Canty Quinlan
  3. pp. xiii-xxxviii
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  1. PART I: Early Stories of Desire
  1. ONE: Tivira, the Man with the Broken Butt: Same-Sex Practices among Brazilian Indians
  2. João Silvério Trevisan
  3. pp. 3-11
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  1. TWO: Machado de Assis and Graciliano Ramos: Speculations on Sex and Sexuality
  2. John Gledson
  3. pp. 12-34
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  1. THREE: Fernando Pessoa’s Gay Heteronym?
  2. Richard Zenith
  3. pp. 35-56
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  1. FOUR: Brazilian Homoerotics: Cultural Subjectivity and Representation in the Fiction of Gilberto Freyre
  2. Jossianna Arroyo
  3. pp. 57-83
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  1. FIVE: Fictions of the Impossible: Clarice Lispector, Lúcio Cardoso, and “Impossibilidade”
  2. Severino João Albuquerque
  3. pp. 84-104
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  1. PART II: On Subjects, on Sex
  1. SIX: Loving in the Lands of Portugal: Sex in Women’s Fictions and the Nationalist Order
  2. Ana Paula Ferreira
  3. pp. 107-129
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  1. SEVEN: Not Just for Love, Pleasure, or Procreation: Eroto-Racial, Sociopolitical, and Mystic-Mythical Discourses of Sexuality in Pepetela’s A geração da utopia
  2. Russell G. Hamilton
  3. pp. 130-148
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  1. EIGHT: Border Writing, Postcoloniality, and Critical Difference in the Works of Orlanda Amarílis
  2. Phyllis Peres
  3. pp. 149-167
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  1. NINE: “I Was Evita,” or Ecce Femina: Lídia Jorge’s The Murmuring Coast
  2. Ronald W. Sousa
  3. pp. 168-184
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  1. PART III: Brazilian Performativities
  1. TEN: Supermen and Chiquita Bacana’s Daughters: Transgendered Voices in Brazilian Popular Music
  2. César Braga-Pinto
  3. pp. 187-207
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  1. ELEVEN: Cross-dressing: Silviano Santiago’s Fictional Performances
  2. Susan Canty Quinlan
  3. pp. 208-232
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  1. PART IV: Queer Nations in Portuguese
  1. TWELVE: Small Epiphanies in the Night of the World: The Writing of Caio Fernando Abreu
  2. Fernando Arenas
  3. pp. 235-257
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  1. THIRTEEN: The Impossible Body: Queering the Nation in Modern Portuguese Dance
  2. André Torres Lepecki
  3. pp. 258-275
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  1. FOURTEEN: Al Berto, In Memoriam: The Luso Queer Principle
  2. Mário César Lugarinho
  3. pp. 276-300
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 301-304
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 305-317
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