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- Lentina, Alda Maria, 1970-
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Agustina Bessa Luís et l’écriture de l’Histoire
- 2012
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- When Agustina Bessa-Luís rewrites History she is guided by the will to show the absence of women in History. Our reading will show the reintroduction of women in Portuguese History through the “descontruction” of its discourse. It’s through questioning the historic objectivity, by the variety of points of view and by an intertextual work with written sources, which reveal that they are human constructions, that the novels become postmodern historiographics metafictions. They elaborate through parody and ambivalence en carnival History, giving a different picture of Portugal. Then the novelist contrasts the official History with a Herstory in order to document the feminine experience and identity in all their multiplicities. The question of memory and phases that are inseparable from woman conditions, reveals a process of identical construction, which gives a report of two ways of feminine inscription into History, one authorize, the other transgressive. Then the principle of masculine domination is questioned through the matter of virility as an impossible model to attain. The men become ambiguous figures, who represent the disorder and decay of society. Fleing but reconciled they reform the masculinity and sign the death of patriarchate. Finally, the last foundations that govern the relation the relation between men and women, and the question of obligatory heterosexuality and the couple, are examined. The writer shows the end of radical otherness between the Other and the One which provokes a resemblance between sexes and questions the notion of the couple. Thus, if the author has shown in her novels, that we can be a man and a woman in different ways, she also shows that in a couple the union is impossible.
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- Lentina, Alda Maria, 1970-
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A catástrofe pós-colonial: ler António Lobo Antunes «à rebours»
- 2014
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Le roman As Naus (Le retour des Caravelles) d’António Lobo Antunes propose une révision du passé historique portugais, en offrant une relecture de la Révolution du 25 avril 1974 comme événement traumatique et catastrophique. En effet, sur fond de guerre et de décolonisation africaine, l’auteur nous transmet une vision dysphorique du contexte révolutionnaire portugais, ceci en adoptant le point de vue des « retornados », ex-colons fuyant l’Afrique, revenant vers la mère Patrie : le Portugal. Nous assistons ainsi à une « navigation à contre-courant », celle où les « héros de jadis », relégués aux marges de la société portugaise, se transforment en personnages nomadiques et « border-line ». Dans ces conditions, l’espace des marges représente « l’envers du décor » de la société portugaise, un monde sens dessus dessous, où règnent la sauvagerie et l’abjection. C’est à travers ces motifs apocalyptiques que l’auteur touche à l’un des fondements de l’identité portugaise, à savoir, celle d’une grande Nation au centre d’un Empire.
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- Lentina, Alda Maria, 1970-
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A "Outra História" de Agustina Bessa-Luís
- 2018. - 1
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In: Ética e Política na Obra de Agustina Bessa-Luís. - Porto (Portugal) : Fundação Engenheiro António de Almeida. - 9789728012465 ; , s. 217-225
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A escrita de Agustina Bessa-Luís está profundamente marcada pelo “trabalho intertextual”, uma forma de “contestação das grandes narrativas” ligada à “condição pós-moderna do saber” (Lyotard). Assim, a contínua relação de leitura/des-leitura crítica, ambivalente e paródica patente nos seus romances historiográficos, revela certos “conflitos de memória” (Pomian), denunciando ao mesmo tempo uma visão da História como “política do passado” (Hutcheon) “situada do lado da doxa” (Veyne) e cujo discurso reproduz uma ideologia do “mesmo”. Estes elementos constituem a base do questionamento e da “desconstrução” (Derrida) da imagem da Nação que nos propomos analisar na nossa comunicação.
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- Lentina, Alda Maria, 1970-
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A Quinta Essência de Agustina Bessa-Luís : la saveur aigre-douce de Macao
- 2011
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In: Revista Portuguesa Humanidades. - Braga, Portugal. - 0874-0321. ; 15:2, s. 69-83
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In the narrative A Quinta Essência Agustina Bessa-Luís proposes an original reading of the Portuguese postcolonial History, by reinvesting the topics of the intercultural relation and the meeting with the Other. In fact, in the troubled context of April 1974, the character of Jose Carlos Pessanha expatriates towards the East, more precisely towards Macao, one of the last Eastern colonies of the Portuguese colonial Empire. However, the characteristic of this tour of rediscovery of the East is that it makes the destiny of a character in search of himself coincide with the questioning of a country still looking for its own identity. Thus, in this voyage backwards into the Luso-Eastern History, the Author draws the portrait of a Nation-Empire split between the desire of incarnating this “genetic superiority of the Occident” and the fascination for the culture of the Other, symbolizing an “excess of otherness” (B. of Sousa Santos) in the Portuguese identity. Macao, will be the territory of an “entre-deux” and an intercultural circulation, as well as an emblematic ground to the expression of the “ambivalent and hybrid” position (colonizing/colonized) of Portugal in the Occident. As a consequence, the uncomfortable “non-inscription” (J. Gil) and the “nomadism” (Deleuze/Guattari) which characterizes José Carlos Pessanha, would be a reflection of yesterday’s and today’s Lusitanian epopee.
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- Lentina, Alda Maria, 1970-
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A Quinta-Essência de Agustina Bessa-Luís : l’Asie portugaise
- 2018
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In: Carnet de l’École Doctorale Histoire de l’art et Archéologie de Sorbonne Université. - Paris : Carnet de l’École Doctorale Histoire de l’art et Archéologie de Sorbonne Université. ; 1, s. 1-8
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Dans A Quinta Essência Agustina Bessa-Luís nous propose une lecture originale de l’Histoire portugaise postcoloniale, en réinvestissant les thèmes de l’interculturel et de la rencontre avec l’Autre. En effet, dans le contexte trouble d’avril 1974, le personnage de José Carlos Pessanha s’expatrie vers l’Orient, en particulier vers Macao, l’une des dernières colonies orientales de l’Empire colonial portugais. Or, la particularité de ce périple de redécouverte de l’Orient est qu’il fait coïncider la destinée d’un personnage en quête de soi avec celle d’un pays se questionnant encore sur sa propre identité. Ainsi, dans ce voyage à rebours dans l’Histoire luso-orientale, l’auteure dessine le visage d’une Nation-Empire tiraillée à la fois entre le désir d’incarner cette « supériorité génétique de l’Occident » et une fascination pour la culture de l’Autre, signe d’un « excès d’altérité » (B. de Sousa Santos) dans l’identité portugaise. Macao, terre de l’entre-deux et de la circulation interculturelle, sera le terrain propice et emblématique à l’expression de la position « ambivalente et hybride » (colonisateur/colonisé) du Portugal en Occident.
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- Lentina, Alda Maria, 1970-
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Adivinhas de Pedro e Inês ou la voix retrouvée d’Inês de Castro
- 2010
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In: Revue Quadrant. - Montpellier, France. - 0769-0126. ; :27, s. 171-193
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- No seu romance, Adivinhas de Pedro e Inês, Agustina Bessa-Luís procura recuperar através de um trabalho intertextual, a experiência feminina de Inês de Castro para escrever uma História no feminino: uma “Herstory”. Com efeito, é a partir de uma “des-leitura” dos textos historiográficos, que ela consegue sublinhar a sua dimensão ideológica e normativa, inaugurando um processo de emancipação face aos cenários por eles legitimados. O recurso à intertextualidade com textos literários inicia uma tentativa de focalização sobre a personagem de Inês de Castro, ampliando a sua voz e centrando o texto nela. Emerge então um discurso eminentemente carnavalesco e polifónico que se opõe a uma forma de tradição de escrita logocêntrica e deixa aparecer a multiplicidade dos percursos femininos na História.
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- Lentina, Alda Maria, 1970-
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Agustina Bessa-Luís : a pátria sem pai
- 2011
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In: Revista Telhados de Vidro. - Lisboa. - 1646-334X. ; :15, s. 139-150
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A escrita da História, na obra de Agustina Bessa-Luís, é aqui encarada na óptica de uma “desconstrução” do discurso da História. Veremos como as ficções historiográficas desmantelam a imagem do « Portugal-super-homem » constitutiva da identidade nacional. É denunciado pela incidência do “insucesso” na História portuguesa, um processo cultural de «desdramatização», favorecendo a emergência do recalcado. Enfim, observaremos que para a autora, esta fragilidade identitária lusa se cristaliza à volta de figuras femininas, acrescentando-lhe uma dimensão política. Através destas mulheres exprime-se uma revolta que transcende as épocas e abala o discurso dominante.
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- Lentina, Alda Maria, 1970-
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Agustina Bessa-Luís et la "con-fusion des genres"
- 2016
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In: Iberical. - Paris- Sorbonne. - 2260-2534. ; 9, s. 103-112
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Résumé :Cette étude cherche à déconstruire l’idée selon laquelle, dans l’œuvre de l’auteure Agustina Bessa-Luís, une caractérisation forte des personnages féminins conduit nécessairement à un effacement et à une absence de figures masculines fortes, ceci afin de démontrer que, la zone d’ombre dans laquelle ces hommes s’inscrivent, est symptomatique de ce que l’auteure définit comme le « refus d’un destin » au masculin. En effet, en dépeignant des personnages masculins fuyants et « borderline », l’auteure révèle chez ses personnages de papier un trouble dans le genre, lié à une « désorientation » résolument queer. Mots-clés : Subversion/déconstruction, identités de genre, l’un/l’autre, Dandysme, queer.
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- Lentina, Alda Maria, 1970-
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Agustina Bessa-Luís : l’inscription du féminin dans l’Histoire portugaise
- 2011
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In: Latitudes, Cahiers Lusophones. - Paris. - 1285-0756. ; :40, s. 28-31
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Propomos analisar quatro ficções historiográficas de Agustina Bessa-Luís (Adivinhas de Pedro e Inês, A Monja de Lisboa, Eugénia e Silvina, O Concerto dos Flamengos), para demonstrar como abalam com os modos de representação do feminino na Historiografia. Com efeito, há um questionamento das “máscaras impostas” às mulheres através de uma sobreexposição dos papéis femininos autorizados na História (mãe, noiva, esposa), para depois favorecer a emergência de papéis paradoxais: vítima e monstro. Delineia-se então um lento percurso no feminino, desembocando sobre uma tomada de consciência e sobre actos radicais: o parricida. Os códigos da feminilidade são definitivamente transpostos por uma feminilidade ao mesmo tempo “inquietante” e “actuante”.
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- Lentina, Alda Maria, 1970-
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Agustina Bessa-Luís ou une poétique du féminin : (Agustina Bessa-Luís or a female poetics)
- 2015
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In: Estudios Románicos. - 0210-4911 .- 1989-614X. ; 24, s. 19-32
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The aim of this work is to analyse some of the main elements that constitute the originality and singularity of the literary production of the Portuguese writer Agustina Bessa-Luís, in order to reveal it's connection with an « écriture-femme ». The analyse of some historiographical metafictions which, by defenition, have a close link with canonic historical texts, allows us to understand that her narratives tend to a certain form of unreading of those texts, creating other texts and images of the past, inherent to the construction of a "Herstory". This characteristic writing in Agustina Bessa-Luís narratives reveals a female poetics expressing the recognition of female experience and gives also back History, and Literature, to women.
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