Published in Rio in 1895 (!!!), its plot revolves around a homosexual love affair between two Brazilian sailors. I am now thinking of Adolfo Caminha's Bom Crioulo. Sommer also quotes Foucault,"they tended to banish alternative sexualities and contruct legitimate novels." I would then like to give a couple of examples that that is not totally true, at least, the Brazilian literature does not fall into that category that easily. She writes, "Romantic novels seldom invite us into the bedroom, it is true, but they succeed very well at inciting our desire to be there." What romantic novels is she writing about? The same way she writes that she could give a list of such novels, I could give a whole slew of novels which deal with carnal love and even homosexuality written in the nineteenth century. This has not been my experience growing up in Brazil. I could not agree with her statement that all national novels of Latin America - used in schools - are love stories. In Reply to: Question Class 2 posted by Diana Taylor on September 20, 192001 at 19:11:38:ĭoris Sommer's Love and Country: an allegorical speculation was such a problematic text for me to read. Re: Question Class 2 Re: Question Class 2
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