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Bending the Rules in the Quest for an Authentic Female Identity: Clarice Lispector and Carmen Boullosa
The narrative style of both Clarice Lispector and Carmen Boullosa is characterized by a postmodern tendency toward an increased reader participation. This is accomplished by a process of liberalizing a pre-established socio-cultural repertoire with respect to female identity. The female protagonists, created by Lispector and Boullosa and examined in this book, struggle to find their true voices and their real life experiences. The resulting literary style of both these authors parallels this struggle, subverting traditional narrative structure and utilizing a dialogue that is particularly suited to describe this feminine process of conscientization.
Book Details
- Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
- Publish Date: Feb 26th, 2004
- Pages: 157
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.10in - 6.00in - 0.60in - 0.70lb
- EAN: 9780820469171
- Categories: • European - Spanish & Portuguese• Women's Studies
About the Author
The Author: Cristina Santos is Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Brock University in Canada. She received her Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Toronto. Her main area of research is contemporary Latin American women writers, with a hermeneutical approach to the representation of female sexuality.
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Praise for this book
«Cristina Santos takes up the vexing issue of a feminine identity in the writing of two of the most important Latin American authors - the brilliant Clarice Lispector and the highly original Carmen Boullosa - and takes her discussion to a new level of philosophically informed criticism. Cristina Santos explains that language usage binds us to specific social precepts, but that the narrative technique of writers like Lispector and Boullosa has advanced a mode of literary expression that openly subverts the socio-cultural bonds of language that have been imposed on women.» (Mario J. Valdés, University of Toronto, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Member, Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, Member, Academy of Literary Studies, U.S.A., 1991 President, Modern Language Association)