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Papers by Marta Peixoto
Anatomy of the concrete muse
Eros, Love, and the (Anti-) Lyric in Joo Cabral
Portuguese Studies, 2014
Abstract:To his last days, Joo Cabral claimed as a badge of honour his status as an anti-lyric po... more Abstract:To his last days, Joo Cabral claimed as a badge of honour his status as an anti-lyric poet, assessing correctly the momentous contribution of this aspect of his poetry to Brazilian and world literature. The critical bibliography on Cabral has followed suit, paying particular attention to Cabral's anti-lyricism, but it should also be noted that a significant portion of Cabral's poetry does not, in fact, turn its back on the lyric. Instead, it is in dialogue with — and perhaps confronts — certain significant aspects of the lyric, achieving ‘um lirismo de tenses [a lyricism of tensions] (Joo Alexandre Barbosa). This paper explores the particular lyricism of Cabral's poetry about eros and love by sketching a chronological development from Pedra do sono (1942) to Sevilha andando (1992) and by examining in some detail the strategies of a few representative poems. It argues that an important portion of Cabral's poetry, including a number of his most luminous poems, can best be understood in the context of the lyrical tradition, to which they make a strikingly original contribution.
Rape and textual violence in Clarice Lispector
Sem resum
Urban Violence and the Politics of Representation in Recent Brazilian Film
Meanings of Violence in Contemporary Latin America, 2011
The spectacle of force, an age-old presence in the arts, has become far more complicated—and spec... more The spectacle of force, an age-old presence in the arts, has become far more complicated—and spectacular—these days as new technologies expand venues and media for the exposure of both real and simulated violence. This essay examines questions that arise from the representation of violence in Brazilian films of the last couple of decades. As Simone Weil observes, force “exercised to its limit” is only one of its possibilities; its subtler, more uncertain manifestations have equally devastating effects: How much more varied in its processes, how much more surprising in its effects is the other force, the force that does not kill, i.e., that does not kill just yet. It will surely kill, it will possibly kill, or perhaps, it merely hangs, poised and ready over the head of the creature it can kill, at any moment, which is to say at every moment. In whatever aspect, its effect is the same: it turns a man into stone. (Weil 164–65)
Capitu’s Curiosity: Undecidability and Questions of Gender in Dom Casmurro
Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis, 2016
Marta Peixoto revisits one of Machado’s most emblematic, if not controversial, characters: Capitu... more Marta Peixoto revisits one of Machado’s most emblematic, if not controversial, characters: Capitu. Raising new questions, Peixoto offers a new reading of Capitu’s radically undecidable moral substance, in relation to the position of women on the brink of change in nineteenth-century Brazil. If we read the novel in full awareness of the undecidability of some of its key components, as a literary character, Capitu remains both extremely devious and deceitful and a proper wife, to the extent that her possible villainy is camouflaged as perfect submissiveness. Peixoto places this characterization in the context of Machado’s other female characters, of ideologies of proper female behavior in the nineteenth century, and Machado’s writings concerning education for women, of which he was a proponent.
Eros, Love, and the (Anti-) Lyric in João Cabral
Portuguese Studies, 2014
Um pomar às avessas": género e figuração da escrita em João Cabral
Coloquio Letras, 2000
Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis
The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel
Brazilian poetry from 1900 to 1922
The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature
The Absent Body: Female Signature and Poetic Convention in Cecília Meireles
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 1988
... variacoes do tema da Leonor de Camoes, tecidos--e ja desenhados--na Leonorana da portuguesa A... more ... variacoes do tema da Leonor de Camoes, tecidos--e ja desenhados--na Leonorana da portuguesa Ana Hath-erly'.11 But should we go so far as to see in 'Leonoreta' 'urn antecessor de poemas experimentalistas?' Let us look more closely at Ana Hatherly's 'Leonorana (1965 ...
Revista Iberoamericana, 1985
Cecilia Meireles (1901-1964), considerada no Brasil a <, continua desper... more Cecilia Meireles (1901-1964), considerada no Brasil a <, continua despertando o interesse do piblico leitor, a julgar pelas reedic6es de sua obra que se encontram em qualquer livraria. A critica brasileira, a partir do fim dos anos trinta, acolheu a sua poesia com um respeito lisonjeiro, manifestado em premios, homenagens e artigos laudat6rios. Sendo assim, 6 notivel que ate hoje s6 se publicaram no Brasil quatro livros (artigos houve muitos) sobre a sua poesia. Dentre esses quatro, s6mente tres examinam a poesia completa, um deles no carater de introducao geral. Este relativo esquecimento critico nao surpreenderd tanto se recordamos que ate bem pouco tempo atras a consagraiao sem investigalo foi a sorte de muitas escritoras de renome no mundo ocidental. No caso de Cecilia Meireles, o seu tradicionalismo estdtico, no momento em que a critica de mais peso e folego se voltava para a inovacio na poesia brasileira, contribuiu corn certeza ao silencio a que se relegou a sua obra. Mesmo a recente onda de pesquisa sobre o lugar e a produiao da mulher nao corrigiu esta escassez critica. O livro de Darlene J. Sadlier, Imagery and Theme in the Poetry of Cecilia Meireles: A Study of Mar Absoluto, o primeiro sobre Meireles em uma d6cada e o primeiro em ingles, vem portanto instalar-se num vazio rico em possibilidades interpretativas. Infelizmente, 6 um livro bastante limitado. A ensaista estuda Mar Absoluto (1945), a sexta coletanea de Meireles, oferecendo uma analise temtica e imag6tica de doze poemas representativos. Alem da compreensio sem deslizes do portugues, Sadlier demonstra um dominio seguro sobre a critica anterior. Sua introduao bern informada a biografia e trajet6ria literAria de
PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 2007
The metaphor of thecidade partida(fragmented or broken city), which has been used to characterize... more The metaphor of thecidade partida(fragmented or broken city), which has been used to characterize Rio de Janeiro's darker aspect—its stark inequality, its class conflicts and violence—is not new but has gained, in the last couple of decades, widespread circulation. Since the end of the military dictatorship in 1985, when formal democratic practices such as free speech and open elec–tions were reestablished, it has become more obvious than ever that equal citizenship rights for all, de facto rather than on paper, are still an elusive ideal in Rio and in Brazil as a whole (as in many other places). The neoliberal economic policies of recent decades, with curtailed social spending and privatization of state-owned property, have increased poverty in Rio significantly. The arrival of the large-scale commercialization of cocaine since the late 1970s has deepened urban divisions and intensified violence. The retail end of the drug business often takes place in poor neighborhoods, or fa...
Marshall C. Eakin and Paulo Roberto de Almeida (eds.), Envisioning Brazil: A Guide to Brazilian Studies in the United States (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005), pp. xvi+215, $65.00, hb
Journal of Latin American Studies, 2006
... Moreover, the Sonoran rulers and Lázaro Cárdenas, just like Porfirio Dıaz before them, used t... more ... Moreover, the Sonoran rulers and Lázaro Cárdenas, just like Porfirio Dıaz before them, used the regional Army commanders as their ... doi:10.1017/S0022216X06241932 Kirwin R. Shaffer, Anarchism and Countercultural Politics in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba (Gainesville, FL ...
Passionate Fictions: Gender, Narrative and Violence in Clarice Lispector
Hispanic Review, 1996
... Passionate Fictions: Gender, Narrative, and Violence in Clarice Lispector Marta Peixoto Unive... more ... Passionate Fictions: Gender, Narrative, and Violence in Clarice Lispector Marta Peixoto University of Minnesota Press j3 Minneapolis London ... in Clarice Inspector,&quot; in The Voyage In: Fictions of Female Development, edited by Elizabeth Abel, Marianne Hirsch, and Elizabeth ...
Machado de Assis: ficcao e historia
Hispania, 1988
Poesia com coisas: Uma leitura de João Cabral de Melo Neto
Chasqui, 1985
70 Anos de A Rosa do Povo - Mesa 3
Revista De Antropologia, 2016
Anatomy of the concrete muse
Eros, Love, and the (Anti-) Lyric in Joo Cabral
Portuguese Studies, 2014
Abstract:To his last days, Joo Cabral claimed as a badge of honour his status as an anti-lyric po... more Abstract:To his last days, Joo Cabral claimed as a badge of honour his status as an anti-lyric poet, assessing correctly the momentous contribution of this aspect of his poetry to Brazilian and world literature. The critical bibliography on Cabral has followed suit, paying particular attention to Cabral's anti-lyricism, but it should also be noted that a significant portion of Cabral's poetry does not, in fact, turn its back on the lyric. Instead, it is in dialogue with — and perhaps confronts — certain significant aspects of the lyric, achieving ‘um lirismo de tenses [a lyricism of tensions] (Joo Alexandre Barbosa). This paper explores the particular lyricism of Cabral's poetry about eros and love by sketching a chronological development from Pedra do sono (1942) to Sevilha andando (1992) and by examining in some detail the strategies of a few representative poems. It argues that an important portion of Cabral's poetry, including a number of his most luminous poems, can best be understood in the context of the lyrical tradition, to which they make a strikingly original contribution.
Rape and textual violence in Clarice Lispector
Sem resum
Urban Violence and the Politics of Representation in Recent Brazilian Film
Meanings of Violence in Contemporary Latin America, 2011
The spectacle of force, an age-old presence in the arts, has become far more complicated—and spec... more The spectacle of force, an age-old presence in the arts, has become far more complicated—and spectacular—these days as new technologies expand venues and media for the exposure of both real and simulated violence. This essay examines questions that arise from the representation of violence in Brazilian films of the last couple of decades. As Simone Weil observes, force “exercised to its limit” is only one of its possibilities; its subtler, more uncertain manifestations have equally devastating effects: How much more varied in its processes, how much more surprising in its effects is the other force, the force that does not kill, i.e., that does not kill just yet. It will surely kill, it will possibly kill, or perhaps, it merely hangs, poised and ready over the head of the creature it can kill, at any moment, which is to say at every moment. In whatever aspect, its effect is the same: it turns a man into stone. (Weil 164–65)
Capitu’s Curiosity: Undecidability and Questions of Gender in Dom Casmurro
Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis, 2016
Marta Peixoto revisits one of Machado’s most emblematic, if not controversial, characters: Capitu... more Marta Peixoto revisits one of Machado’s most emblematic, if not controversial, characters: Capitu. Raising new questions, Peixoto offers a new reading of Capitu’s radically undecidable moral substance, in relation to the position of women on the brink of change in nineteenth-century Brazil. If we read the novel in full awareness of the undecidability of some of its key components, as a literary character, Capitu remains both extremely devious and deceitful and a proper wife, to the extent that her possible villainy is camouflaged as perfect submissiveness. Peixoto places this characterization in the context of Machado’s other female characters, of ideologies of proper female behavior in the nineteenth century, and Machado’s writings concerning education for women, of which he was a proponent.
Eros, Love, and the (Anti-) Lyric in João Cabral
Portuguese Studies, 2014
Um pomar às avessas": género e figuração da escrita em João Cabral
Coloquio Letras, 2000
Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis
The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel
Brazilian poetry from 1900 to 1922
The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature
The Absent Body: Female Signature and Poetic Convention in Cecília Meireles
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 1988
... variacoes do tema da Leonor de Camoes, tecidos--e ja desenhados--na Leonorana da portuguesa A... more ... variacoes do tema da Leonor de Camoes, tecidos--e ja desenhados--na Leonorana da portuguesa Ana Hath-erly'.11 But should we go so far as to see in 'Leonoreta' 'urn antecessor de poemas experimentalistas?' Let us look more closely at Ana Hatherly's 'Leonorana (1965 ...
Revista Iberoamericana, 1985
Cecilia Meireles (1901-1964), considerada no Brasil a <, continua desper... more Cecilia Meireles (1901-1964), considerada no Brasil a <, continua despertando o interesse do piblico leitor, a julgar pelas reedic6es de sua obra que se encontram em qualquer livraria. A critica brasileira, a partir do fim dos anos trinta, acolheu a sua poesia com um respeito lisonjeiro, manifestado em premios, homenagens e artigos laudat6rios. Sendo assim, 6 notivel que ate hoje s6 se publicaram no Brasil quatro livros (artigos houve muitos) sobre a sua poesia. Dentre esses quatro, s6mente tres examinam a poesia completa, um deles no carater de introducao geral. Este relativo esquecimento critico nao surpreenderd tanto se recordamos que ate bem pouco tempo atras a consagraiao sem investigalo foi a sorte de muitas escritoras de renome no mundo ocidental. No caso de Cecilia Meireles, o seu tradicionalismo estdtico, no momento em que a critica de mais peso e folego se voltava para a inovacio na poesia brasileira, contribuiu corn certeza ao silencio a que se relegou a sua obra. Mesmo a recente onda de pesquisa sobre o lugar e a produiao da mulher nao corrigiu esta escassez critica. O livro de Darlene J. Sadlier, Imagery and Theme in the Poetry of Cecilia Meireles: A Study of Mar Absoluto, o primeiro sobre Meireles em uma d6cada e o primeiro em ingles, vem portanto instalar-se num vazio rico em possibilidades interpretativas. Infelizmente, 6 um livro bastante limitado. A ensaista estuda Mar Absoluto (1945), a sexta coletanea de Meireles, oferecendo uma analise temtica e imag6tica de doze poemas representativos. Alem da compreensio sem deslizes do portugues, Sadlier demonstra um dominio seguro sobre a critica anterior. Sua introduao bern informada a biografia e trajet6ria literAria de
PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 2007
The metaphor of thecidade partida(fragmented or broken city), which has been used to characterize... more The metaphor of thecidade partida(fragmented or broken city), which has been used to characterize Rio de Janeiro's darker aspect—its stark inequality, its class conflicts and violence—is not new but has gained, in the last couple of decades, widespread circulation. Since the end of the military dictatorship in 1985, when formal democratic practices such as free speech and open elec–tions were reestablished, it has become more obvious than ever that equal citizenship rights for all, de facto rather than on paper, are still an elusive ideal in Rio and in Brazil as a whole (as in many other places). The neoliberal economic policies of recent decades, with curtailed social spending and privatization of state-owned property, have increased poverty in Rio significantly. The arrival of the large-scale commercialization of cocaine since the late 1970s has deepened urban divisions and intensified violence. The retail end of the drug business often takes place in poor neighborhoods, or fa...
Marshall C. Eakin and Paulo Roberto de Almeida (eds.), Envisioning Brazil: A Guide to Brazilian Studies in the United States (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005), pp. xvi+215, $65.00, hb
Journal of Latin American Studies, 2006
... Moreover, the Sonoran rulers and Lázaro Cárdenas, just like Porfirio Dıaz before them, used t... more ... Moreover, the Sonoran rulers and Lázaro Cárdenas, just like Porfirio Dıaz before them, used the regional Army commanders as their ... doi:10.1017/S0022216X06241932 Kirwin R. Shaffer, Anarchism and Countercultural Politics in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba (Gainesville, FL ...
Passionate Fictions: Gender, Narrative and Violence in Clarice Lispector
Hispanic Review, 1996
... Passionate Fictions: Gender, Narrative, and Violence in Clarice Lispector Marta Peixoto Unive... more ... Passionate Fictions: Gender, Narrative, and Violence in Clarice Lispector Marta Peixoto University of Minnesota Press j3 Minneapolis London ... in Clarice Inspector,&quot; in The Voyage In: Fictions of Female Development, edited by Elizabeth Abel, Marianne Hirsch, and Elizabeth ...
Machado de Assis: ficcao e historia
Hispania, 1988
Poesia com coisas: Uma leitura de João Cabral de Melo Neto
Chasqui, 1985
70 Anos de A Rosa do Povo - Mesa 3
Revista De Antropologia, 2016