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Author:

Pinto, Cristina Ferreira, 1960-

Title:

Gender, discourse, and desire in twentieth-century Brazilian women's literature / Cristina Ferreira-Pinto.

Publisher:

Purdue University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xiv, 208 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Brazilian literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Brazilian literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Women and literature--Brazil--History--20th century.
Women in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Desire in literature.
Écrits de femmes brésiliens--Histoire et critique.
Littérature brésilienne--20e siècle--Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature--Brésil--Histoire--20e siècle.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature.
Désire dans la littérature.
Portugees.
Letterkunde.
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Sekseverschillen.

Notes:

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.

Series:

Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; v. 29

ISBN:

9781557533524
1557533520

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53896544

LCCN:

2003025959

Locations:

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

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)