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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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West Lafayette, Indiana
Purdue University Press
2004, [2004]©2004
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| Series: | Purdue studies in Romance literatures
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-198) and index
- 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