Нови португалски писма и оспорването на патриархалната власт (прев. Илияна Чалъкова)
New Portuguese Letters and the Challenge to the Patriarchal Authority (transl. by Iliana Chalakova)

Summary/Abstract: Maria Graciete Besse is a Portuguese-born poetry and novel writer and university professor presently living in France. She has published many literary essays in both France and Portugal and edited various books of conference articles on Portuguese-speaking literature. Her essay “New Portuguese Letters and the challenge to the patriarchal power” presents and discusses the main topics in the so-called programme book of the Portuguese Feminism. Besse considers the book of “the three Marias” still interesting at the end of the 20th century and analyses it in the view of constantly shocking time – present and past, space – interior and exterior and universes – real and imaginary. The object in focus of the analysis is “the situation of the woman” in the Portuguese society since the 1950s. In her analysis Besse seeks to stress the moments that make of New Portuguese Letters a political text challenging the patriarchal power.

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