Transgressive Textualities, Transgressive Sexualities: Nelida Piñon's A Força do Destino

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Beard, Laura J.

• Introduction: In a published talk on women's writing in Brazil, author Marina Colasanti reminds us that "[l]iteratura... implica linguagem individual. E linguagem individual é transgressão, ruptura das normas, questionamento do já estabelecido" (41). Nélida Piñon, one of the foremost voices in contemporary Brazilian narrative, creates her own identity and claims her own authority in part through transgression. With the use of metafiction, parody, and other re-workings of traditional genres and canonical works, she transgresses myriad literary conventions. Piñon challenges the limitations of socially-accepted sexuality not only by including in her texts transgressive sexual expressions like incest and male and female homosexuality, but also by celebrating disruptive, excessive female sexuality and by exalting the erotic relationship between the writer and the text.

• Date created

  1999-01-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Sexuality
  • Transgression
  • Piñon, Nélida
  • Brazilian Literature

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3542JQ12

• License

  © 1999 L. J. Beard. This version of this article is open access and can be downloaded and shared. The original author(s) and source must be cited.