The voracity of desire: the lesboerotic simbology of Judith Teixeira in "Venere Coricata"

Abstract

The following paper aims at analysing the sonnet “Venere coricata”, from the book Decadência (1923), by Judith Teixeira (1888-1959), according to the lesboeroticism and the feminist literary theoretical conceptions. Therefore, it is based on criteria from modern lyric in order to investigate themes which demystify stereotyped conception imbricated in heteronormativity to conceptualise being woman. In Portuguese traditional poetry, the body, nudity and desire problematization through the lesboerotic perspective is different from discourse built and perpetrated by the patriarchy when considering woman delegitimization in a scope marked by gender oppression. At last, those thematic assumptions justify the need of rethinking the canon, disassociating it from plastered and pervaded by androcentric discourse circling Lusitanian culture, as well as repairing the place assigned for women as Judith Teixeira in historiography.