Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-198) and index.
Contents:
Brazilian women in society and literature: a chronology. -- Brazilian women's literature as a counterideological discourse. -- Female body, male desire. -- Brazilian women writers: the search for an erotic discourse. -- Representation of the female body and desire: the Gothic, the fantastic, and the grotesque. -- Sonia Coutinho's short fiction: aging and the female body. -- Contemporary Brazilian women's short stories: lesbian desire. -- The works of Márcia Denser and Marina Colasanti: female agency and heterosexuality. -- Brazilian women writers in the new millennium. -- Appendix: English translations.
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