Transnational and Counternational Queer Agencies in Lusophone Cultures: Introduction

Anna M Klobucka,César Braga-Pinto

doi:10.21471/jls.v4i1.296

Anna M Klobucka, César Braga-Pinto

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Abstract

This special issue of the Journal of Lusophone Studies was devised with the aim of addressing issues of (nonnormative) gender and (queer) sexuality in relation to travel, translation, transnational friendships and relationships, posturing and imitation, contagion, promiscuity, and other related themes across the spectrum of modern Luso-Afro-Brazilian literatures and cultures from the nineteenth century onward. Collectively, the editors and contributors are particularly interested in considering the ways in which queer subjectivities and agencies have counteracted triumphant versions of the nation and nationalism that seek to foreclose any alternatives to patriarchal and heteronormative fictions of progress and homogeneous identity.

Highlights

This special issue of the Journal of Lusophone Studies was devised with the aim of addressing issues of gender and sexuality in relation to travel, translation, transnational friendships and relationships, posturing and imitation, contagion, promiscuity, and other related themes across the spectrum of modern Luso-Afro-Brazilian literatures and cultures from the nineteenth century onward
Though notable, exceptions, most studies of queer authors and the theorizations of queer literary production are scattered in journals or edited volumes; since the pioneering publication of Gasparino da Matta’s Histórias do amor maldito (1967), anthologies of queer writing (Honório; Ruffato; Machado e Moura; Antologia Trans; Sousa; Bessa; Mello) have not aimed to be exhaustive, either chronologically or geographically
The volume Retratos do Brasil homossexual: fronteiras, subjetividades, desejos (2010), a collection of papers presented at the IV Conference of the Associação Brasileira de Homocultura, contains nine essays under the heading “Homocultura e literatura.”

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Introduction

This special issue of the Journal of Lusophone Studies was devised with the aim of addressing issues of (nonnormative) gender and (queer) sexuality in relation to travel, translation, transnational friendships and relationships, posturing and imitation, contagion, promiscuity, and other related themes across the spectrum of modern Luso-Afro-Brazilian literatures and cultures from the nineteenth century onward. Queer studies have developed unevenly and discontinuously across the heterogenous landscape of literary and cultural productions, traditions, and histories of the Portuguese-speaking world.

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