Gender, Discourse, and Desire in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Women's Literature
"This study by Cristina Ferreira-Pinto explores the poetic and narrative strategies twentieth-century Brazilian women writers use to achieve new forms of representation of the female body, sexuality, and desire. Female writers discussed include: Gilka Machado, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Marcia Dens...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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West Lafayette, Ind. :
Purdue University Press
c2004.
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| Series: | Purdue studies in Romance literatures ;
v. 29 |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009707518606719 |
Table of Contents:
- Brazilian women in society and literature: a chronology.
- Brazilian women's literature as a counterideological discourse.
- Female body, male desire.
- Brazilian women writers: the search for an erotic discourse.
- Representation of the female body and desire: the Gothic, the fantastic, and the grotesque.
- Sonia Coutinho's short fiction: aging and the female body.
- Contemporary Brazilian women's short stories: lesbian desire.
- The works of Márcia Denser and Marina Colasanti: female agency and heterosexuality.
- Brazilian women writers in the new millennium.
- Appendix: English translations.
