Passionate fictions : gender, narrative, and violence in Clarice Lispector / Marta Peixoto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peixoto, Marta.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Violence in literature.

Lispector, Clarice--Criticism and interpretation.

Lispector, Clarice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 116 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 American readers with a critical introduction to this remarkable writer and offers those who already know Lispector's fiction a deeper understanding of its complex workings.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Young Artist and the Snares of Gender; 2. Female Power in Family Ties; 3. The Nurturing Text in Hélène 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-112) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8470-7

OCLC:

476093513