10/17/2022
By Monica Melo
You are cordially invited to a lecture by professor Anna Klobucka entitled “New Portuguese Letters in the USA”, on Wednesday, Oct. 26 at 5 p.m.
This is a virtual event. Please register online.
Abstract: When Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta, and Maria Velho da Costa, the authors of New Portuguese Letters, were accused of offending public morals and taken to court by the Portuguese dictatorship in 1972, their prosecution gradually became an international cause cèlebre due to the energetic involvement of feminist activists of the so-called second wave, mainly in Western Europe and the United States. Drawing on archival materials held in the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other contemporary sources, this lecture will discuss the highlights of New Portuguese Letters’ unexpected notoriety in the US before and around the 1974 Carnations Revolution, which put an end to the Estado Novo regime.
Anna M. Klobucka is Professor of Portuguese and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She is the author of The Portuguese Nun: Formation of a National Myth (2000; Portuguese translation 2006), O Formato Mulher: A Emergência da Autoria Feminina na Poesia Portuguesa (2009), and O Mundo Gay de António Botto (2018). She has also coedited After the Revolution: Twenty Years of Portuguese Literature 1974-1994 (1997), Embodying Pessoa: Corporeality, Gender, Sexuality (2007; Portuguese edition 2010), and Gender, Empire and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections (2014).
This webinar is incorporated into Prof. Diana Gomes Simões’ course on Lusophone women writers in translation.
For more information, contact diana_gomessimoes@uml.edu