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The body move: revising portuguese female poetry of the first quarter of the twentieth century

dc.contributor.authorPinto, Isabel
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-23T13:09:53Z
dc.date.available2021-06-23T13:09:53Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThe first quarter of the twentieth century in Portugal was characterised by a series of important historical and political events: the Regicide (1st February 1908), the fall of the Monarchy and establishment of the Republic (5th October 1910), and the First World War (1914-1918). By this time, women could not yet vote and they were systematically ignored in the debate of crucial social issues. Therefore, the main question here addressed is how poetry as free embodiment can take part in a gender revolution, promoting the feminist turn. The answer lies in the consequent breakout of female sentimental literature, which entitled women to reveal themselves, by enabling the poetic scrutiny of their intimacy through a particular focus on the body as prime referent. In this way, they dared to expose dreams, desires, fulfilments and despairs, firming an identity pact through poetry, and engendering a collective voice with social meaning. The published poems here analysed convey the idea that being a woman was something valuable and unique, and, at the same time, manage to inscribe female poets such as Virgínia Vitorino and Zulmira Falcarreira in the Portuguese intellectual mainstream.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.21659/rupkatha.v8n4.05pt_PT
dc.identifier.eid85012865010
dc.identifier.issn0975-2935
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/33881
dc.identifier.wos000437050300005
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectBodypt_PT
dc.subjectFeminismpt_PT
dc.subjectGenderpt_PT
dc.subjectTwentieth-century poetrypt_PT
dc.subjectWomenpt_PT
dc.titleThe body move: revising portuguese female poetry of the first quarter of the twentieth centurypt_PT
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage44pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue4pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage30pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleRupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanitiespt_PT
oaire.citation.volume8pt_PT
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT

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