Beatriz Delgado: uma voz transgressora com ecos modernistas

Abstract

Beatriz Delgado (1900-1993) was a highly acclaimed Portuguese poet, chronicler, lecturer and actress in the first decades of the 20th century in Portugal and Brazil. Contemporary of Florbela Espanca and Judith Teixeira, Delgado flourished as a writer in a period in which women still faced significant challenges in their search for voice and autonomy. Although the period brought some positive changes for women in the literary field, such as greater access to education and a growing acceptance of female authorship in the public sphere, literature continued to be predominantly dominated by male voices. Delgado, however, challenged these restrictions through her bold writing, openly exploring themes of love, desire, and female sexuality. In a conservative context, in which such topics were often deemed interdicts, her warm texts broke literary and social barriers. In this research, we seek to investigate and recover biographical data and readings of works by this famous Portuguese writer, who, unfairly, has had both her work and her literary appreciation lost. Furthermore, we examine the relationship between the renowned poet Beatriz Delgado and the Modernism literary movement. Although she was not associated with any literary style, she has incorporated modernist elements in her poetry and identified with Futurism. Through the analysis of selected texts and the comparison of her work with other writers of the period, we aim to identify some modern traits and modernist influences present in her verses, considering their impact on poetry and literary culture at the beginning of the 20th century