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Comparative Cultural Studies Research Group Seminar Gisele Giandoni Wolkoff, CES post-doctoral student January 22nd, 2010, 17:00, CES Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, Coimbra
This work will present, contextually and thematically, some of the works of women poets in Portugal and Ireland, so as to comprehend how the debates in agenda (work themes and contexts) refer to utterances reconstitutive of female identity(ies), for as Maria Irene Ramalho (2001) reminds us, identity represents itself in language, revealing the location and sexual position of social bodies. Therefore, the present study highlights the importance of rethinking the validation of social categories (sex and nation) both through their representations as through their plural constitutions, in what Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2001) defines as trans-identity or inter-identity and which configures itself in the inevitability of the multiple existence of being – and that ends up pointing out the instability of the legitimacy of the local and the particular. For all intents and purposes, we must retell, think in other manner what has been the Portuguese and Irish poetic history in dialogue, from which we are able to gather a sketch of two parallel instances of post-modern, globalized reality, source of research of socio-political and cultural scope. Gisele Giandoni Wolkoff is CES/FCT post-doctoral researcher, doctor in Linguistics and Literary Studies in English, at the University of São Paulo, has as research interests: Feminist and Irish Studies, Contemporary Poetry (of English and Portuguese language) and Translation. Member of the Editorial board of the journal Vertentes (Federal University São João Del Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil), published "Três poemas traduzidos de Eavan Boland" in the journal Cadernos de Tradução (2007)and, in the field of literature and essay, “Reading Poetry", in Ensino de Língua Inglesa Através do Texto Literário. São Paulo, Humanitas (2007). |