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1 online resource (xiv, 208 pages) |
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Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; v. 29 |
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Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; v. 29.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-198) and index. |
| 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. |
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
"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, and Marina Colasanti. While creating new forms, these writers are also deconstructing cultural myths of femininity and female behavior. In order to understand these myths, the book also presents new readings of some male-authored canonical novels by Jose de Alencar, Machado de Assis, Manuel Antonio de Almeida, and Aluisio Azevedo. The specific focus on female sexuality and desire acknowledges the intrinsic link between sexuality and an individual's sense of identity, and its importance for female identity, given the historical repression of women's bodies and the double standard of morality still pervasive in many Western cultures. In the discussion of the strategies Brazilian female poets and fiction writers employ, Ferreira-Pinto addresses some social and cultural issues that relate to a woman's sense of her own body and sexuality: the characterization of women based on racial features and class hierarchy; marriage; motherhood; the silencing of the lesbian subject; and aging. Ferreira-Pinto's analysis is informed by the works of various and diverse critics and theoreticians, among them Helene Cixous, Teresa De Lauretis, Adrienne Rich, Gloria Anzaldua, Georges Bataille, and Wilhelm Reich"--Publisher's description. |
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English. |
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Brazilian literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Brazilian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- Brazil -- History -- 20th century.
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Women in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Desire in literature.
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Feminism in literature.
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Écrits de femmes brésiliens -- Histoire et critique.
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Littérature brésilienne -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
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Femmes et littérature -- Brésil -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
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Femmes dans la littérature.
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Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature.
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Désire dans la littérature.
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Désir dans la littérature.
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Féminisme dans la littérature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Feminist.
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Brazilian literature
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Brazilian literature -- Women authors
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Desire in literature
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Sex role in literature
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Women and literature
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Women in literature
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Brazil
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Geschlecht Motiv
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Erotik Motiv
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Begierde Motiv
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Schriftstellerin
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Frauenliteratur
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Brasilien
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Portugees.
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Letterkunde.
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Vrouwelijke auteurs.
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Sekseverschillen.
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1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| In: |
Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR |
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Print version: Pinto, Cristina Ferreira, 1960- Gender, discourse, and desire in twentieth-century Brazilian women's literature. West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, ©2004 (DLC) 2003025959 (OCoLC)53896544 |
| ISBN |
9781612491011 (electronic bk.) |
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1612491014 (electronic bk.) |
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1557533520 |
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9781557533524 |
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AU@ 000062489513 |
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