Male gaze and Portuguese literature’s 90s Generation

This article aims to investigate the presence of male gaze (MULVEY, 1989), that is, the male gaze as the only possibility of active desire, manifested in two Portuguese narratives published in the 1990s: the novella Portugués, guapo y matador (1997), by Manuel Jorge Marmelo; and the novel Azul-turqu...

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Author: Branquinho Massucatto Resende, Marcelo
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2022
Country:Brasil
Institution:Real Gabinete Português de Leitura (RGPL)
Repository:Convergência Lusíada (Online)
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.convergencia.emnuvens.com.br:article/488
Online Access:https://www.convergencialusiada.com.br/rcl/article/view/488
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Contemporary Portuguese literature
Male gaze
Gender
Manuel Jorge Marmelo
Jacinto Lucas Pires
Literatura portuguesa contemporânea
Gênero
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Summary:This article aims to investigate the presence of male gaze (MULVEY, 1989), that is, the male gaze as the only possibility of active desire, manifested in two Portuguese narratives published in the 1990s: the novella Portugués, guapo y matador (1997), by Manuel Jorge Marmelo; and the novel Azul-turquesa (1998), by Jacinto Lucas Pires. Both narratives bring male protagonists, who monopolize the narrative perspective. From a contextualization of the Portuguese narrative in the post-Carnation Revolution context, we set out for a cultural reading of the text, observing the contamination of a male gaze on narrative unfoldings, descriptions of characters and narrative details.