Gender, discourse, and desire in twentieth-century Brazilian women's literature /

"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; marriag...

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Main Author: Pinto, Cristina Ferreira, 1960- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, ©2004.
Series:Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; v. 29.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:"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. Ferreria-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."--Jacket
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 208 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-198) and index.
ISBN:9781612491011
1612491014