ELIZABETH BISHOP, ARMÁRIO E GOZO: DINÂMICAS DO EROTISMO

Interdisciplinar - Revista de Estudos em Língua e Literatura ◽

10.47250/intrell.v35i1.15697 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 35 ◽

pp. 161-175

Author(s):

Tiago Barbosa da Silva

Keyword(s):

Rio De Janeiro ◽

Elizabeth Bishop ◽

Key West

Em carta e nos poemas O banho de xampu e Canção do tempo das chuvas, Elizabeth Bishop (2006, 2011 e 2012) representa Key West, na Flórida, e a Casa de Samambaia, em Petrópolis, no Rio de Janeiro, retratando-os como lugares de maior acolhimento para sua subjetividade e sexualidade. Nesses textos, a poeta revela um jogo erótico com o lugar, dinamizado pelo soterramento de sua intimidade em descrições, aparentemente, neutras da realidade. Essa dinâmica sugere há existência de um jogo libidinal entre a insinuação de um segredo e, ao mesmo tempo, a manutenção de seu sigilo. Dona de uma poética do armário (SEDGWICK, 2007), Bishop, uma mulher lésbica, nesses textos, aponta para experiências íntimas, marcadas pela jouissance, pela relação erótica com o lugar (BATAILLE, 1987). Neste ensaio, proponho pensar esse jogo, destacando expressões de gozo simulacradas na relação com o ambiente, um gozo que se realiza à revelia da opressão, da hostilidade de gênero e do preconceito (LUGONES, 2019). PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Elizabeth Bishop. Representações da Intimidade. Erotismo. Armário. Gozo.

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O processo criativo do poema “The Burglar of Babylon” a partir de uma abordagem sociocrítica

Manuscrítica: Revista de Crítica Genética ◽

10.11606/issn.2596-2477.i41p33-44 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 33-44

Author(s):

Elisabete da Silva Barbosa ◽

Douglas Lima Rodrigues

Keyword(s):

Rio De Janeiro ◽

Elizabeth Bishop

Este artigo propõe analisar o poema “The Burglar of Babylon”, escrito em 1964 e publicado em 1965 pela escritora norte-americana Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979). Este estudo adota como abordagem teórico-metodológica a crítica genética, campo interdisciplinar que pode dialogar com outras teorias que ajudem a responder questões referentes à gênese analisada. Levando em consideração que a espacialidade é temática frequente na poética da autora, o conceito de multiterritorialidade torna-se importante para a análise do poema em questão. Além disso, a temática adotada é de cunho social, o que propicia o estudo do rastro sócio-histórico que se apresenta nos manuscritos. O texto trata da história de Micuçú, um criminoso pernambucano que, como tantas outras pessoas, migrou para o Rio de Janeiro em busca de melhores condições de vida, passando a residir no morro da Babilônia, favela carioca da qual Bishop, a partir de seu apartamento no bairro do Leme, tinha vista privilegiada. Propomos reconstituir alguns dos movimentos de gênese a fim de expor algumas das estratégias usadas pela escritora e, especialmente, encontrar elos intertextuais presentes na estruturação sócio-histórica do poema.

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Reading Elizabeth Bishop

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474421331.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Keyword(s):

Nova Scotia ◽

New England ◽

Literary Criticism ◽

Visual Art ◽

Elizabeth Bishop ◽

Early Writing ◽

Prose Fiction ◽

Literary Traditions ◽

Key West ◽

Book Covers

A comprehensive and original guide to Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry and other writing, including correspondence, literary criticism, prose fiction and visual art. Celebrating Elizabeth Bishop as an international writer with allegiances to various countries and literary traditions, this collection of essays explores how Bishop moves between literal geographies like Nova Scotia, New England, Key West and Brazil and more philosophical categories like home and elsewhere, human and animal, insider and outsider. The book covers all aspects and periods of the author’s career, from her early writing in the 1930s to the late poems finished after Geography III and those works published after her death. It also examines how Bishop’s work has been read and reinterpreted by contemporary writers.

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Elizabeth Bishop and Audre Lorde: Two Views of ‘Florida’ in the Global South Atlantic

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474421331.003.0020 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 280-293

Author(s):

Marvin Campbell

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Sexual Difference ◽

Southeastern United States ◽

Virgin Islands ◽

Wallace Stevens ◽

Elizabeth Bishop ◽

Audre Lorde ◽

Hart Crane ◽

Key West ◽

The Caribbean

This chapter investigates how the transnational crossings Elizabeth Bishop launched from the peninsular Florida and its Key into Haiti, Mexico, Aruba, and most famously, Brazil, across North & South, Questions of Travel and Geography III correspond to an analogous geographical arc on the part of Audre Lorde, in which the Southeastern United States, Oaxaca, Mexico, and the Virgin Islands inform an equally fluid and indeed oceanic space from her work of the 1980s onward, when Lorde began spending significant time in the Virgin Islands. As Bishop sought to ‘do more’ with Key West and its environs in than modernist predecessors like Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane by employing this island to make investments in gender, race, nation, and class, Audre Lorde brought racial and sexual difference to the fore of this liminal crossing across national borders and boundaries, hybridizing her own better documented investments in Yoruba myth with a trans-American consciousness lodged squarely in not only the Caribbean and the Southeast, but in Oaxaca, Mexico and the Southwest. Such a remapping reveals two outsider poets who stand at the center of a literary formation where twentieth century American and African-American poetics converge and clash.

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Elizabeth Bishop’s Pink

The Review of English Studies ◽

10.1093/res/hgaa077 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Jo Gill

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Popular Culture ◽

Elizabeth Bishop ◽

Waiting Room ◽

Key West ◽

Crucial Effect ◽

Self Knowledge ◽

Colour Theory ◽

Johannes Itten

Abstract This article argues for the significance of the colour pink in the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop. While Bishop’s interest in painting, architecture and sculpture has been widely noted, the importance of colour—and the specific resonance of pink—has hitherto been overlooked. I propose that across Bishop’s career, from early New York and Key West poems and drafts through the poetry of Brazil, such as ‘The Armadillo’, to the late great poems, ‘In the Waiting Room’ and finally, and disturbingly, ‘Pink Dog’, shades of pink operate to crucial effect. This is the case even, or especially, where pink is only tacitly registered (see, for example, ‘In the Waiting Room’ where the pink body is strategically covered by ‘gray’ clothes). Whether directly or by allusion, Bishop uses pink to suggest difference, unease and alarm, particularly in relation to gender, sexuality and the temptations and risks of self-exposure. In pursuing the point, I look to representations of pink in contemporary popular culture, to colour theory such as the work of Johannes Itten, and to the psychology and physiology of shame. By tracing the significance of pink, I suggest, we reach a better understanding of Bishop’s aesthetics of self-knowledge, subjectivity and display.

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Elizabeth Bishop's Brazil: An Attraction in Difference

Journal of Lusophone Studies ◽

10.21471/jls.v5i2.383 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 158-176

Author(s):

Tom Winterbottom

Keyword(s):

Rio De Janeiro ◽

National Development ◽

Elizabeth Bishop ◽

Military Coup ◽

Robert Lowell ◽

Present Essay ◽

The 1950S ◽

Shed Light

The correspondence of Elizabeth Bishop during her years in Brazil with fellow poet Robert Lowell shed light not only on her personal impressions and experience there but also on the broader atmosphere of Brazil in the 1950s and 60s. The abundant letters show an intimacy that Bishop was willing to explore in personal correspondence that was not readily forthcoming in her published poetry. The present essay analyzes that correspondence alongside the few poems Bishop wrote in or about Brazil to understand her pursuit of belonging and happiness that found an unlikely home—and a tragic end—in and around Rio de Janeiro for almost twenty years. Bishop’s trajectory from love to loss and happiness to tragedy intimately interacts, this essay argues, with changes in midcentury Brazil, from the national development pursued by Vargas and Kubitschek, including the building of Brasília, to the fallout from the 1964 military coup and beyond.

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