The serpent tongue of Eliane Marques: pretugués as the core of a border literature in dialogue with portuñol
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-1124.i42p99-115Keywords:
Translingual Literature, Borderland, Pretuguese, PortuñolAbstract
This article explores hybrid linguistic forms as a poetic and aesthetic device in Louças de família (2023), a novel by Brazilian writer Eliane Marques. Focusing on the author’s engagement with Portuñol and Pretuguese, the study reflects on how these hybrid forms of language can be understood as a "serpent tongue," in the terms proposed by Chicana intellectual Gloria Anzaldúa. Methodologically, the article analyzes excerpts from the novel in which Spanish and Portuguese blend together and elements that align with Lélia Gonzalez’s notion of Pretuguese emerge. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the discussion draws on references from linguistics, comparative literature, and feminist criticism. The article concludes that Louças de família is not only set in a geographic borderland but also translates this liminality into its very use of language.
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