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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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West Lafayette, Ind. :
Purdue University Press,
©2004.
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| Collection: | Purdue studies in Romance literatures ;
v. 29. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.