ELIZABETH BISHOP, ARMÁRIO E GOZO: DINÂMICAS DO EROTISMO

Tiago Barbosa da  Silva

doi:10.47250/intrell.v35i1.15697

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Tiago Barbosa da Silva Instituto Federal de Sergipe - IFSE https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0615-9357

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47250/intrell.v35i1.15697

Abstract

In a letter and in the poems The Shampoo and Song for the Rainy Season, Elizabeth Bishop (2006, 2011, and 2012) represents Key West, Florida, and her house in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, depicting them as zones of greater acceptance for her subjectivity and sexuality. In these texts, the poet reveals an eroticized dynamic with the idea of place, dynamized by the burying of her intimacy under apparently neutral descriptions of reality. This dynamic points to a libidinal urge between the hint of a secret and, at the same time, the maintenance of its secrecy. Owner of a poetics of the closet (SEDGWICK, 2007), Bishop, a lesbian woman, in these texts, points to intimate experiences, marked by jouissance (BATAILLE, 1987), by an erotic bond with place. In this essay, I discuss this dynamic, highlighting expressions of veiled jouissance, hidden underneath descriptions of the immediate space, which take place in spite of oppression, gender hostility and prejudice (LUGONES, 2019).

KEYWORDS: Elizabeth Bishop. Representations of Intimacy. Eroticism. Closet. Jouissance.

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Author Biography

Tiago Barbosa da Silva, Instituto Federal de Sergipe - IFSE

Professor Dr. do Instituto Federal de Sergipe (IFSE). Pós-doutorando no PPGL/UFS. Doutor em Letras pelo PPGL/UFPE (2018). Pesquisador associado ao Grupo de Estudos de Literatura e Crítica Contemporâneas (GELCCO), ao Grupo de Estudos sobre Representações, Alteridades e Subjetividades (ERAS), e ao Grupo de Pesquisa em Estudos de Texto, Leitura e Linguagem (GETELL).

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