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- Title
Queering Gender Through Texture: Possession and Decadence in Mário de Sá-Carneiro's A confissão de Lúcio.
- Authors
PECHSTEIN, ISRAEL
- Abstract
Departing from Renu Bora's notion of the queerness of textures, this article seeks to understand how locating the queer textures of Mário de Sá- Carneiro's 1914 novella, A confissão de Lúcio, emphasizes the work's engagement with questions of gender, modernity, and decadence. Sá-Carneiro's take on modernity has been described as decadent partly because of his refusal or failure to resolve issues of artistic representation with respect to modernity. Approaching A confissão through the queerness of tactility offers a unique insight into the peculiar relationship between the novella's narrator-protagonist, Lúcio Vaz, his friend Ricardo de Loureiro, and Ricardo's wife Marta. Through an exploration of Ricardo's framing of relationships in terms of gendered possession, this article examines Sá-Carneiro's ultimately fraught and decadent figuration of modernity.
- Subjects
CONFISSAO de Lucio, A (Book); SA-Carneiro, Mario de, 1890-1916; GENDER in literature; LGBTQ+ people in literature; DECADENCE in literature; MODERNITY in literature; MASCULINITY in literature; MODERNISM (Literature)
- Publication
Journal of Lusophone Studies, 2018, p106
- ISSN
2469-4800
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.21471/jls.v3i1.212