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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958168603321

Autore

Feracho Lesley <1968->

Titolo

Linking the Americas : race, hybrid discourses, and the reformulation of feminine identity / / Lesley Feracho

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2005

ISBN

9780791483503

0791483509

9781423744016

1423744012

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture

Disciplina

860.9/9287/098

Soggetti

Latin American literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Autobiography - Women authors

Women in literature

Self in literature

Race in literature

America Literatures Women authors

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-230) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Radicalization of Marginality in Jesus’s Quarto de despejo: Diário de uma favelada -- Jesus’s Diário and the Hybrid Forms of Textual Agency -- Authorial Intervention in A hora da estrela: Metatextual and Structural Multiplicity -- Textual Cross-Gendering of the Self and the Other in Lispector’s A hora da estrela -- Campos’s Tiene los cabellos rojizos y se llama Sabina: The Multivocality of Identity -- Telling My Story: Campos’s Rewriting of the Feminine Voice in Sabina -- The Autobiographical Pact and Hurston’s Restructuring of Difference -- Wandering through the Dust: Textual Statues in Dust Tracks on a Road -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

What links women of the Americas? How do they redefine their identities? Lesley Feracho answers these questions through a comparative look at texts by four women writers from across the



Americas—Zora Neale Hurston, Julieta Campos, Carolina Maria de Jesus, and Clarice Lispector. She explores how their writing reformulates identity as an intricate connection of the historical, sociocultural, and discursive, and also reveals new understandings of feminine writing as a hybrid discourse in and of itself.