Examining Whiteness - Reading Clarice Lispector Through Bessie Head and Toni Morrison

Informationen zum Autor Lucia Villares Klappentext Critics consider Clarice Lispector the leading female writer in the Brazilian literary canon. Her connections with the nation! however! seem to magically disappear as her work is analysed. Zusammenfassung By reading Clarice Lispector's work of whiteness through concepts developed by Bessie Head and Toni Morrison, the author deals with the ways in which Lispector's texts raise questions concerning the relation of Brazil's African ethnic component to notions of what constitutes the Brazilian nation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Clarice Lispector! Subjectivity and the National Part I 1. A Question of Power: Unspeakable Miscegenation 2. Haunting in Toni Morrison's Beloved Part II 3. Welcoming the Ghost: Haunting in a paixao segundo G.H. 4. Whiteness and the Construction of Subjectivity in O lustre 5. Modernization and the Phantasmagoria of Commodities in A cidade sitiada 6. Whiteness and Masculinity in a maca no escuro 7. Racism and the Performance of Whiteness in A hora da estrela 8. Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Lucia Villares, Villares Lucia
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.2010
• EAN: 9781906540470
• ISBN: 978-1-906540-47-0
• No. of pages: 214
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Brazil, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form