Gender, discourse, and desire in twentieth-century Brazilian women's literature Pinto, Cristina Ferreira 1960- creator author. JSTOR (Organization) text bibliography Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. inu West Lafayette, Ind Purdue University Press ©2004 2004 monographic eng preservation access remote 1 online resource (xiv, 208 pages) "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 Autonio de Almeida, and Aluisio Azevedo." "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 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. Cristina Ferreira-Pinto. 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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-198) and index. English. s-bl--- Brazilian literature Women authors History and criticism Brazilian literature 20th century History and criticism Women and literature Brazil History 20th century Women in literature Sex role in literature Desire in literature Écrits de femmes brésiliens Histoire et critique Littérature brésilienne 20e siècle Histoire et critique Femmes et littérature Brésil Histoire 20e siècle Femmes dans la littérature Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature Désire dans la littérature Désir dans la littérature LITERARY CRITICISM Feminist Brazilian literature Brazilian literature Women authors Desire in literature Sex role in literature Women and literature Women in literature Brazil Geschlecht Erotik Begierde Schriftstellerin Frauenliteratur Brasilien Portugees Letterkunde Vrouwelijke auteurs Sekseverschillen 1900-1999 fast PQ9533 .P56 2004 869.09/3538/0820981 18.38 Gender, discourse, and desire in twentieth-century Brazilian women's literature Pinto, Cristina Ferreira, 1960- West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, ©2004 (DLC) 2003025959 (OCoLC)53896544 Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; v. 29 9781612491011 1612491014 1557533520 9781557533524 2003025959 22573/ctt6nxcb4 JSTOR https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt6wq4tx OCLCE 100703 20230103223214.8 in00004634389 eng