O Formato Mulher - A Emergência da Autoria Feminina na Poesia Portuguesa

by Anna M. Klobucka

Ao longo dos últimos cem anos, deixou de ser exclusivo no palco da literatura portuguesa o protagonismo do "sujeito masculino que nos escreve", no dizer de Eduardo Lourenço. Com rigor teórico, informação histórica minuciosa e por meio de uma série de leituras de textos de referência, O Formato Mulher examina as circunstâncias e as consequências da emergência da autoria feminina no campo cultural da poesia portuguesa moderna, detendo-se nas grandes figuras que elege: Florbela Espanca, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Maria Teresa Horta, Luiza Neto Jorge, Ana Luísa Amaral e Adília Lopes.


«Ciente de como é difícil saber em poesia onde termina o rosto e começa a máscara, a tese do livro de Anna Klobucka centra-se justamente, e de forma muito inteligente, nessas instâncias reguladoras do “poético” – que tem graves implicações no que é convencionalmente chamado “feminino”, ou no que é produzido por sujeitos que, social e culturalmente, caem na categoria “mulher”.»
Ana Luísa Amaral, JL

348 pages, Paperback

Published December 1, 2009

About the author

Anna M. Klobucka holds an MA in Iberian Studies from the University of Warsaw (Poland) and a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University (1993). She taught at the Ohio State University and the University of Georgia before coming to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 2001. At UMass Dartmouth, she teaches primarily Portuguese and Lusophone African literatures and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies. She served as Chair of the Department of Portuguese from 2003 to 2007. She is the author of The Portuguese Nun: Formation of a National Myth (Bucknell, 2000; Portuguese translation issued by Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda in 2006) and O Formato Mulher: A Emergência da Autoria Feminina na Poesia Portuguesa (Coimbra: Angelus Novus, 2009). She has co-edited the volumes After the Revolution: Twenty Years of Portuguese Literature 1974-1994 (Bucknell University Press, 1997), Embodying Pessoa: Corporeality, Gender, Sexuality (University of Toronto Press, 2007; Portuguese translation published in 2010 by Assírio & Alvim), and Gender, Empire, and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Her articles have appeared in Colóquio/Letras, Luso-Brazilian Review, Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, Slavic and Eastern European Journal, and SubStance, among other journals. She was also the lead author of the first edition of Ponto de Encontro: Portuguese as a World Language (Prentice Hall, 2007). She served as Vice-President (2003-04) and President (2005-06) of the American Portuguese Studies Association. In 2007, she was recognized as UMass Dartmouth's Scholar of the Year. She currently serves as Executive Editor of the open-access online Journal of Feminist Scholarship, published by the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at UMass Dartmouth.