Open AccessQUEERNESS IN BERNARDO SANTARENO'S THEATRE
Author(s) -
Paulo Pires Pepe
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
via atlântica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2317-8086
pISSN - 1516-5159
DOI - 10.11606/va.v0i33.140960
Subject(s) - human sexuality , closet , gender studies , essentialism , sociology , identity (music) , sexual identity , gender identity , politics , gender relations , aesthetics , art , history , political science , law , archaeology
This article examines Bernardo Santareno’s A promessa (1957) and Os marginais e a revolução (1979), arguing that the earlier play foreshadows a concern with sexual and gender relationships and expressions of queerness that only comes completely ‘out of the closet’ after the 25th of April, 1974. Taking particular religious and political constraints into account, and using Santareno’s plays as a starting point, I will explore the complex ways in which gender and sexuality, significant components of individual identity and identity relations, act as a means of dissolving barriers and uncover the many ways Santareno questions essentialist conceptualisations of gender and sexuality.