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.
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