The perverse and the poets: Literature of Sodom and surroundings

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https://doi.org/10.11606/va.i2.207160

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Judith Teixeira, Literature of Sodom, sexual dissidence, women's poetry

Abstract

This article seeks to reexamine Judith Teixeira’s participation in the historical episode known as the “Literature of Sodom” through an extended contextualization of Teixeira’s poetic debut and the launching of Decadência. I argue that a more complete and nuanced understanding of Teixeira’s role in the 1922-23 events must take into account her belonging to two distinct colectives of sociocultural agents that were connected by her agency: the (male) “perverts” of the Portuguese modernism and the female “poetesses”, whose robust emergence in the literary marketplace of the early 1920s formed the inescapable context for the debut of the author of Decadência.

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Author Biography

  • Anna M. Klobucka, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

    Anna M. Klobucka holds an MA in Iberian Studies from the University of Warsaw (Poland) and a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University (1993). She taught at the Ohio State University and the University of Georgia before coming to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 2001. At UMass Dartmouth, she teaches primarily Portuguese and Lusophone African literature and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies. She served as Chair of the Department of Portuguese from 2003 to 2007. She is the author of The Portuguese Nun: Formation of a National Myth (Bucknell, 2000; Portuguese translation issued by Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda in 2006) and O Formato Mulher: A Emergência da Autoria Feminina na Poesia Portuguesa (Coimbra: Angelus Novus, 2009). She has co-edited the volumes After the Revolution: Twenty Years of Portuguese Literature 1974-1994 (Bucknell University Press, 1997), Embodying Pessoa: Corporeality, Gender, Sexuality (University of Toronto Press, 2007; Portuguese translation published in 2010 by Assírio & Alvim), and Gender, Empire, and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Her articles have appeared in Colóquio/Letras, Luso-Brazilian Review, Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, Slavic and Eastern European Journal, and SubStance, among other journals. She was also the lead author of the first edition of Ponto de Encontro: Portuguese as a World Language (Prentice Hall, 2007). She served as Vice-President (2003-04) and President (2005-06) of the American Portuguese Studies Association. In 2007, she was recognized as UMass Dartmouth's Scholar of the Year. She currently serves as Executive Editor of the open-access online Journal of Feminist Scholarship, published by the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at UMass Dartmouth. 

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Published

2023-11-30

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Vol. 24 No. 2 (2023): 100 Years of Sodom Literature

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Dossiê Especial: 100 anos da literatura de Sodoma

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KLOBUCKA, Anna M. The perverse and the poets: Literature of Sodom and surroundings. Via Atlântica, São Paulo, v. 24, n. 2, p. 41–73, 2023. DOI: 10.11606/va.i2.207160. Disponível em: https://revistas.usp.br/viaatlantica/article/view/207160.. Acesso em: 16 feb. 2025.