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 Denser, an...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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West Lafayette :
Purdue University Press
2004.
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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/alma991009763131406719 |
Table of Contents:
- --Gender, Discourse, and Desire in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Women's Literature--Contents--Acknowledgments--Brazilian Women in Society and Literature: A Chronology--Introduction: Brazilian Women's Literature as a Counterideological Discourse--Chapter One Female Body, Male Desire--Chapter Two Brazilian Women Writers The Search for an Erotic Discourse--Chapter Three Representation of the Female Body and Desire The Gothic, the Fantastic, and the Grotesque--Chapter Four Sonia Coutinho's Short Fiction Aging and the Female Body Chapter Five Contemporary Brazilian Women's Short Stories Lesbian Desire--Chapter Six The Works of Márcia Denser and Marina Colasanti Female Agency and Heterosexuality--Conclusion Brazilian Women Writers in the New Millennium--Appendix English Translations--Notes--Bibliography--Index.