%0 Journal Article
%T Masochistic Ritual and Rebirth in Fern o Mendes Pinto¡¯s Peregrina  o
%A Barletta
%A Vincent
%J Ellipsis
%D 2009
%I American Portuguese Studies Association (APSA)
%X The present study examines the ontogenetically productive role of humiliation and violence within Fern o Mendes Pinto¡¯s (1509?-1583) Peregrina  o, a canonical work of the Portuguese Renaissance. Explicitly adapting Gilles Deleuze¡¯s reading of the work of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (Coldness and Cruelty) to the Peregrina  o, this study engages in a focused analysis of masochistic rituals encoded within Mendes Pinto¡¯s narrative. Focusing on two specific episodes in the text, both of them ritual murders ¨C one carried out by Portuguese captains in the Red Sea and another by Southeast Asians in the Kingdom of Pegu ¨C this study explores the ways in which the Peregrina  o employs the logic of the masochistic contract, and the rituals that sustain it, in strategic ways.
%K Fern o Mendes Pinto
%K violence and literature
%K Portuguese literature
%U http://www.ellipsis-apsa.com/Volume_7-Barletta_files/Barletta_ellipsis_7_2009%20copy.pdf