tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7447400040924735.post1240347584111517234..comments2023-10-22T06:13:57.382-04:00Comments on Estudos e Teoria Luso-Afro-Brasileiros: Was Camões Gay? Queering the Portuguese Literary CanonAdama5torNethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11562633599665753936noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7447400040924735.post-41866525431960125422008-01-25T12:17:00.000-05:002008-01-25T12:17:00.000-05:00I have also waited to see where discussion would l...I have also waited to see where discussion would lead before I weighed in here. <BR/><BR/>Need less to say, Anna, yours is a fascinating article for me, one that strikes at the heart of what anyone can really mean when they apply the word "gay" or "homosexual" to a literary text, an author, his/her presumedly static conception of personal identity, desires or thematic intentions, to say nothing of those who choose to read said authors and their texts.<BR/><BR/>What really "queers the canon," then, is not simply the intent to ferret out and exhaustively catalogue any cradle-to- grave "gayness" in literary/intellectual history, but a commitment to finding a more nuanced approach to studies in cultural and gender identity, and in this your article is a refreshing shift in this direction at a time when claims of fixed identifications (and yes, at times complete with the residue of subsequent marginalizations) are still, sadly enough, all too often the order of the day. <BR/><BR/>Hopefully, those scholars uncomfortable with such questions (and not just in relation to Camoes!--but also those works in which the questions of gender and sexuality now part and parcel of graduate studies in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies and theory are approached more explicitly) will take the time to read your article closely and allow it to "sink in..." as they continue reading along these lines. In the end, after all, the problem may ultimately be that "they know all too well who they are." If this is is indeed the case, then perhaps they have only their own unshakeable sense of self to lose...398eyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11575646269176641296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7447400040924735.post-16117826512795954482008-01-25T10:30:00.000-05:002008-01-25T10:30:00.000-05:00João: I rest my case. "Was Eugénio de Andrade gay?...João: I rest my case. "Was Eugénio de Andrade gay?" clearly remains to you THE question you thought I was "really" asking when I asked whether the role of Whitman as a poet of homoerotic desire played any role in your reading of Eugénio's intertextual engagement with Whitman's lyric. Many thanks for your comment and for the link; I look forward to reading your essay.Anna M. Klobuckahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01427570562953612659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7447400040924735.post-82786235316157181582008-01-25T09:44:00.000-05:002008-01-25T09:44:00.000-05:00I have hesitated when I answered your question sim...I have hesitated when I answered your question simply because Eugénio de Andrade never publicly stated that he was gay, and there is not enough evidence of that sexual orientation. As far as we know, he might have been bisexual or heterosexual. Therefore, it would not be scientifically correct to take that as a fact. I invite you to read an essay I published recently in Mathesis (#16, 2007)where I speculate -- and speculation is all we can do -- about that possible aspect of his life and other subjects related to sexuality: "O Avesso da Alma: A Dignificação do Corpo em Eugénio de Andrade e em Walt Whitman".<BR/>Here's the link: http://mancelos.googlepages.com/OAvessodaAlma-ADignificaodoCorpoemAn.pdfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com