Lecture

When “Je est une autre”: the ‘feminine’ and the Modernity

Marinela Freitas (Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa)

March 16, 2011, 17h00

Seminar Room (2nd Floor), CES-Coimbra

Abstract

Based on the theoretical fields determined by the Feminist Studies and Queer Theory, the notion of subject within the Aesthetic Modernity tradition will be reassessed, combining it with the difficulty of integrating the "feminism" and the subsequent gender destabilization. In this context, the prospective and retrospective positions of, respectively Emily Dickinson and Luiza Neto Jorge, two authors whose deviant poetic languages create multiple fractures in the discursive construction of subjectivity, thus deconstructing the traditional gender system, fixed and binary, and questioning the way how sexual identities are built in (and through) language.


Biographic Note

Marinela Freitas holds a Master's Degree in Anglo-American Studies by the School of Arts of the Porto University. She is preparing her PhD dissertation in the field of Comparative Literature (on the works of Emily Dickinson and Luiza Neto Jorge), with a grant from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. She is a researcher at the Margarida Losa Institute for Comparative Literature (Porto University). She has several published works in the fields of Comparative Literature, North-American Literature and Utopian Studies.


Discussants:

Licínia Pereira (FLUC)

Isabel Caldeira


Note: Within the VI Annual Cycle Young Social Scientists.