Order, gender and transgression in Gustavo Barroso’s The Lady of Pangin

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https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v0i33.139982

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gender, national identity, narrative, history, XXth Portuguese Colonial Literature

Abstract

In 2017, the 85th anniversary of the publication of the historical novel, A Senhora de Pangim (The Lady of Pangim), by Gustavo Barroso (1932), was completed. It was reissued in Lisbon by the General Agency of the Colonies, in the celebrations of the Portuguese centenaries (1940). In Brazil, it was still republished in the form of comics "for adults" in 1958. After this last edition, the novel fell by the wayside. The novel seeks to reconstruct, through questionable documentary sources, the biography of Dona Maria Úrsula de Abreu and Lencastre, daughter of Portuguese, born in Brazil, and was engaged in the army of the King of Portugal at the dawn of the eighteenth century, as the soldier Baltazar of Couto Cardoso, having served in Goa at least till 1714. Easily inserted in the literary series of the "warrior maiden", The Lady of Pangim imposes a pertinent reflection on queer studies.

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  • Mário César Lugarinho, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)

    Associate Professor at the University of São Paulo in the area of Portuguese-speaking African Literature. Since 2001, he has been a Research Productivity Fellow (level 2) of CNPq. He holds a degree in Literature (1988) and a specialization in Literary Theory (1989) from the State University of Rio de Janeiro, a master's degree (1993) and a Ph.D. (1997) in Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He completed post-doctoral studies at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (2002) and at the Center for Comparative Studies of the University of Lisbon (2012-2013); in 2012, took the exam for Full Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Human Sciences at USP. He was Associate Professor at Fluminense Federal University, in the areas of Portuguese Literature and Portuguese-speaking African Literature  (1994-2007). With other researchers, in June 2001 he founded the Brazilian Association of Homocultural Studies (ABEH). He has published books, articles in specialized magazines and chapters of books, in Brazil and Abroad. She has experience in Literature, with emphasis on African Literature of Portuguese Language and Portuguese Literature, working mainly on the following subjects: Comparative Studies of Portuguese-speaking Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Studies, and Queer Studies.

    ResearcherID: E-4551-2013

    USP-URL: http://dlcv.fflch.usp.br/node/539

Via Atlântica nº 33

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Published

2018-09-11

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Vol. 19 No. 1 (2018): Dossier 33 - Queering the luso-african-brazilian canon

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Dossiê 33: Queerizar o cânone luso-afro-brasileiro

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LUGARINHO, Mário César. Order, gender and transgression in Gustavo Barroso’s The Lady of Pangin. Via Atlântica, São Paulo, v. 19, n. 1, p. 253–272, 2018. DOI: 10.11606/va.v0i33.139982. Disponível em: https://journals.usp.br/viaatlantica/article/view/139982.. Acesso em: 17 jun. 2024.