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The multifaceted and labyrinthine oeuvre of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) is distinguished by having been written and published under more than seventy different names. These were not mere pseudonyms, but what Pessoa termed 'heteronyms,' fully realized identities possessed not only of wildly divergent writing styles and opinions, but also of detailed biographies. In many cases, their independent existences extended to their publication of letters and critical readings of each other's works (and those of Pessoa 'himself').Long acclaimed in continental Europe and Latin America as a towering presence in literary modernism, Pessoa has more recently begun to receive the attention of an English-speaking public. Embodying Pessoa responds to this new growth of interest. The collection's twelve essays, preceded by a general introduction and grouped into four themed sections, apply a range of current interpretative models both to the more familiar canon of Pessoa's output, and to less familiar texts – in many cases only recently published. As a whole, this work diverges from traditional Pessoa criticism by testifying to the importance of corporeal physicality in his heteronymous experiment and to the prominence of representations of (gendered) sexuality in his work.
Anna Klobucka is an associate professor and chair in the Department of Portuguese at the University of Toronto. Mark Sabine is Lecturer in Lusophone Studies at the University of Nottingham.
Acknowledgments Introduction: Pessoa's Bodies ANNA M. KLOBUCKA and MARK SABINEPart One: Corporeal InvestigationsTo Pretend Is to Know Oneself DANA STEVENSStrength, Contemplation, and Disquiet: Towards a Corporeal Aesthetic of the Heteronyms ALESSANDRA M. PIRESUnburied Bodies: Abdication and Art Production in The Book of Disquiet BLAKE STRAWBRIDGEPart Two: Reading Pessoa QueerlyFernando Pessoa: The Homoerotic Drama FERNANDO ARENAsFernando Pessoa, He Had His Nerve GEORGE MONTEIRO'Ever-repositioned mysteries': Homosexuality and Heteronymity in 'Antinous' MARK SABINEPart Three: (Dis)Placing WomenThe Truant Muse and the Poet's Body M. IRENE RAMALHO SANTOSKissing All Whores: Displaced Women and the Poetics of Modernity in Alvaro de Campos KATHRYN BISHOP-SANCHEZTogether at Last: Reading the Love Letters of Ophelia Queiroz and Fernando Pessoa ANNA M. KLOBUCKAPart Four: Pessoa in PerformanceAppearances of the Author FERNANDO CABRAL MARTINSAutomatic Romance: Pessoa's Mediumistic Writings as Sexual Theatre RICHARD ZENITHAntonio Tabucchi in Search of Pessoa's Heteronymous Body FRANCESCA BILLIANIContributors Index
