Transgressive Textualities, Transgressive Sexualities: Nelida Piñon's A Força do Destino

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dc.contributor.authorBeard, Laura J.
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-01T12:25:17Z
dc.date.available2025-05-01T12:25:17Z
dc.date.issued1999-01-01
dc.descriptionIntroduction: In a published talk on women's writing in Brazil, author Marina Colasanti reminds us that "[l]iteratura... implica linguagem individual. E linguagem individual é transgressão, ruptura das normas, questionamento do já estabelecido" (41). Nélida Piñon, one of the foremost voices in contemporary Brazilian narrative, creates her own identity and claims her own authority in part through transgression. With the use of metafiction, parody, and other re-workings of traditional genres and canonical works, she transgresses myriad literary conventions. Piñon challenges the limitations of socially-accepted sexuality not only by including in her texts transgressive sexual expressions like incest and male and female homosexuality, but also by celebrating disruptive, excessive female sexuality and by exalting the erotic relationship between the writer and the text.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7939/R3542JQ12
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.isversionofBeard, L. J. (1999). Transgressive Textualities, Transgressive Sexualities: Nelida Piñon's A Força do Destino. Brasil/Brazil: Revista de Literatura Brasileira/A Journal of Brazilian Literature, 21(12), 21-42.
dc.rights© 1999 L. J. Beard. This version of this article is open access and can be downloaded and shared. The original author(s) and source must be cited.
dc.subjectSexuality
dc.subjectTransgression
dc.subjectPiñon, Nélida
dc.subjectBrazilian Literature
dc.titleTransgressive Textualities, Transgressive Sexualities: Nelida Piñon's A Força do Destino
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85
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