Bending the rules in the quest for an authentic female identity
Subtitle: Clarice Lispector and Carmen Boullosa
By: Cristina Santos.
Series: Wor(l)ds of change,; v. 55
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
Subjects: Lispector, Clarice -- Criticism and interpretation; Boullosa, Carmen -- Criticism and interpretation; Latin American literature -- Women authors -- 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.
Table of contents: title: Female identity and self-affirmation in Latin American literature : Clarice Lispector and Carmen Boullosa; title: Considering the context of Latin American literary history; title: Writing as women : women writing; title: Innovations in the use of the narrative voice : Clarice Lispector and Carmen Boullosa; title: Abandoning the constraints of the established literary tradition; title: "Purity of the instant" or the essential simplicity of the originating instant and the fragmentation of narrative consciousness; title: Deviations from authorial authority : reading between the lines in Boullosa's Papeles irresponsables; title: The feminine condition in Clarice Lispector; title: Approaching a discourse with the other; title: Retrieving the primordial sense of being : a Paixo segundo G.H.; title: Writing through the mask of the other : A hora da estrela; title: The feminine condition in Carmen Boullosa; title: Enunciating the self in writing; title: Why is the queen so evil? : feminine sexuality in "Blancanieves"; title: "I love you to death" : Boullosa's interview with a vampire in Isabel.