Gender, Discourse, and Desire in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Women's Literature

by Cristina Ferreira-Pinto

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557533520
• ISBN13: 9781557533524
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"