Gender, Discourse, and Desire in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Women's Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9861489 |
|---|---|
| Authors | María Figueredo (0000-0001-6694-8521), Cristina Ferreira-Pinto |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 530 |
| Publication date | 2006-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispania (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2133 • E-ISSN: 2153-6414 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20063344 |
| OpenAlex | W2314514152 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 24 |
This study by Cristina Ferreira-Pinto explores the poetic and narrative strategies twentieth-century Brazilian women writers use to achieve new forms of representation of the female body, sexuality, and desire. Female writers discussed include: Gilka Machado, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Marcia Denser, and Marina Colasanti. While creating new forms, these writers are also deconstructing cultural myths of femininity and female behavior. In order to understand these myths, the book also presents new readings of some male-authored canonical novels by Jose de Alencar, Machado de Assis, Manuel Antonio de Almeida, and Aluisio Azevedo. The specific focus on female sexuality and desire acknowledges the intrinsic link between sexuality and an individual's sense of identity, and its importance for female identity, given the historical repression of women's bodies and the double standard of morality still pervasive in many Western cultures. In the discussion of the strategies Brazilian female poets and fiction writers employ, Ferreira-Pinto addresses some social and cultural issues that relate to a woman's sense of her own body and sexuality: the characterization of women based on racial features and class hierarchy; marriage; motherhood; the silencing of the lesbian subject; and aging. Ferreira-Pinto's analysis is informed by the works of various and diverse critics and theoreticians, among them Helene Cixous, Teresa De Lauretis, Adrienne Rich, Gloria Anzaldua, Georges Bataille, and Wilhelm Reich
Art · Literature · Sociology · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Literature, Culture, and Criticism
Retrato do Brasil
The practice of love
Desire and Domestic Fiction
Archetypal patterns in women's fiction
Insight and responsibility
The Female body in western culture
Foundational Fictions
Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions
Heterosexuality, Power and Pleasure
Uses of the Erotic
Theoretical Dialogue in "O Quarto Fechado"
Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing
Toward a black feminist criticism
The female self engendered
Dona Flor e seus dois maridos
"Technique and Ambiguity in "Dom Casmurro
Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives
The Safe Sea of Women
Reversible Readings. Ambiguity in Four Modern Latin American Novels
Introducción a la literatura fantástica
Zero Degree Deviancy
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2014 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |