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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784378403321

Autore

Peixoto Marta

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 1994

©1994

ISBN

0-8166-8470-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 116 pages)

Disciplina

869.3

Soggetti

Women in literature

Sex role in literature

Violence in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.