Irene Lisboa and the gender fictions of Estado Novo
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https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v0i33.140230Keywords:
Estado Novo, women’s writings, gender issues, poetryAbstract
Irene Lisboa (1892-1958) lived under an oppressive political regime: the Estado Novo (1933-1974). It promoted a patriarchal, male chauvinistic and misogynistic society, in which women had a few to none public roles available to perform. Thus, Lisboa’s writings are a most important case in point of a category frowned upon during this period: female authorship. Performing modernist experiences, Lisboa wrote under a male pseudonym, João Falco, which reveals her refusal to conform to social and literary rules and overcome the limitations of a binary gendered identity and society. Having started from the contribution of some feminist studies, this article questions the definition of a gender identity of the “woman” depicted in Lisboa’s poetry.
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