A donzela guerreira: figurações de Joana d'Arc na literatura portuguesa
Abstract
The prolific mythopoetic posterity of the figure of Joan of Arc, invoked in numerous spaces and times of creation, has always been accompanied by the proliferation of oscillating or even flagrantly contradictory portraits of the maiden of Orléans. An ideologically versatile heroine, her vestigial presence in 19th-21st century Portuguese literature, even if occasional, allows us to document the disparate religious, political or aesthetic uses of medieval matter, reread in the light of different modernities, including our own. Through the analysis of selected texts by Eça de Queirós, Tomaz de Figueiredo, João Miguel Fernandes Jorge and Andreia C. Faria that revisit the figure of the Pucelle, we argue that all these Joans belong to the domain of the history of ideas and imaginary fabrication, rather than to biography accredited by historiographical work.
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