Description
For the first time, and against the backdrop of Bolsonaro's emboldened far-right regime, Brazil's legendary and pioneering queer writers appear together in English translation.
This far-reaching, bilingual assortment of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and photography--erotic and personal, revolutionary, hopeful, joyous, and bitter--continues the legacy of defiant queer expression in Brazil and demands its prolific, unapologetic future.
In fresh and poetic prose, Raimundo Neto brings us lesser-known narratives of queer life in rural Brazil, including the story of a boy determined to become the "harvest bride" at a the local annual harvest dance. Poet Angélica Freitas details a disturbingly familiar world in which women are divided into rigid binaries--clean or dirty, good or bad--with stark language that builds into utter absurdity. And Caio Fernando Abreu sits in a hospital dying of AIDS, meeting with angels and writing letters in which he repeats "all I can do is write" like a mantra. Spanning four decades, and featuring a total of thirteen writers, Cuíer reminds us again, as Natalia Affonso says in her translation of Tatiana Nascimento's poem:
...what we make
lying down is
also
revolution.
Author: Sarah Coolidge, Caio Fernando Abreu, Angélica Freitas
Publisher: Two Lines Press
Published: 09/28/2021
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 6.93h x 5.91w x 1.02d
ISBN13: 9781949641189
ISBN10: 194964118X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Anthologies (multiple authors)
- Fiction | LGBTQ+ | General