I linguaggi dell'autodeterminazione e della sorellanza in Novas Cartas Portuguesas

This article aims to analyse the different meanings that the languages of self-determination and sisterhood have in Novas Cartas Portuguesas, a work written by Maria Isabel Barreno (1939-2016), Maria Teresa Horta (1937) and Maria Velho da Costa (1938-2020) and first published in 1972 by Natália Correia's Estúdios Cor publishing house. The reading of Novas Cartas Portuguesas proposed here takes into account the double character typifying the work: as expression of queer literature, that "resists" the conventions of society in relation to the body and female sexuality; as expression of women's literature that "resists" the literary canon, which, in the 19th and 20th centuries, in Portugal, almost completely excluded women.