Passionate Fictions : Gender, Narrative, and Violence in Clarice Lispector /

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Clarice Lispector is the premiere Latin American woman prose writer of this century, Suzanne Ruta noted in the New York Times Book Review, ""but because she is a woman and a Brazilian, she has remained virtually unknown in the United States."" Passionate Fictions provides America...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peixoto, Marta
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Lispector, Clarice.
Lispector, Clarice > Critique et interpretation.
Lispector, Clarice > Criticism and interpretation.
Sekseverschillen.
Geweld.
Women in literature.
Violence in literature.
Sex role in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Spanish & Portuguese.
Violence dans la litterature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la litterature.
Femmes dans la litterature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Young Artist and the Snares of Gender; 2. Female Power in Family Ties; 3. The Nurturing Text in Helene Cixous and Clarice Lispector; 4. A Woman Writing: Fiction and Autobiography in The Stream of Life and The Stations of the Body; 5. Rape and Textual Violence; Afterword: The Violence of a Heart; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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