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DOSSIER HUMORISTIC DISCOURSES AND GENDER IDENTITY • Cad. Pagu (62) • 2021 • https://doi.org/10.1590/18094449202100620001   copy

Humour as a Subversive1 1 In this article, subversion is defined as the action and effect of making the established social order visible with the purpose of effecting changes in it to make it more logical, fair and egalitarian. According to the author, humour can be a strategy of feminist subversion insofar as it can contribute to the weakening of the patriarchal system (thus giving rise to a more feminist society) by showing its wicked nature and perverse logic through humour and tools such as satire, irony and the grotesque. Feminist Strategy in “The Portable Virgin” by Ann Enright*

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Abstract

This article analyses “The Portable Virgin”, a short story published by the Irish writer Ann Enright in 1991, in order to establish the way in which gender and humour interact in it, to define the characteristics and functions of the comic elements that Mary, the protagonist, uses to render her reality, and to show the strategies employed by Enright to subvert the myths, particularly that of the Virgin Mary, on which the patriarchal feminine identity rests.

Gender; Humour; Subversion; Sexual Identity; Patriarchy

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