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Author:

Santos, Cristina, 1972-

Title:

Bending the rules in the quest for an authentic female identity : Clarice Lispector and Carmen Boullosa / Cristina Santos.

Publisher:

P. Lang,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

viii, 157 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Lispector, Clarice--Criticism and interpretation.
Boullosa, Carmen--Criticism and interpretation.
Latin American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Latin American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Women and literature--Latin America--History--20th century.
Women in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-153) and index.

Contents:

Female identity and self-affirmation in Latin American literature : Clarice Lispector and Carmen Boullosa -- Considering the context of Latin American literary history -- Writing as women : women writing -- Innovations in the use of the narrative voice : Clarice Lispector and Carmen Boullosa -- Abandoning the constraints of the established literary tradition -- "Purity of the instant" or the essential simplicity of the originating instant and the fragmentation of narrative consciousness -- Deviations from authorial authority : reading between the lines in Boullosa's Papeles irresponsables --
The feminine condition in Clarice Lispector -- Approaching a discourse with the other -- Retrieving the primordial sense of being : a Paixo segundo G.H. -- Writing through the mask of the other : A hora da estrela -- The feminine condition in Carmen Boullosa -- Enunciating the self in writing -- Why is the queen so evil? : feminine sexuality in "Blancanieves" -- "I love you to death" : Boullosa's interview with a vampire in Isabel.

Series:

Wor(l)ds of change, 1072-334X ; v. 55

ISBN:

9780820469171 (alk. paper)
0820469173 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52424004

LCCN:

2003012153

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)