An edition of Examining whiteness (2009)

Examining whiteness

reading Clarice Lispector through Bessie Head and Toni Morrison

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An edition of Examining whiteness (2009)

Examining whiteness

reading Clarice Lispector through Bessie Head and Toni Morrison

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"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. This paradox is the starting point for this analysis of the works of an author who--despite being born in the Ukraine--grew up to become an irreplaceable presence in Brazilian literature. Non-Brazilian authors, such as the South African Bessie Head and the North American Toni Morrison, provide triggering concepts to help tackle a blind-spot in Brazilian culture: the issue of racial difference. From this new perspective overlooked black characters in Lispector's work become crucial and relevant, and whiteness emerges as an iunexamined set of norms"--Publisher's description, back cover.

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Legenda, Routledge
Language
English
Pages
202

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Subjects

Criticism and interpretation, Brazilian literature, history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, Spanish & Portuguese, Brazilian Women authors, Race awareness in literature

People

Clarice Lispector (1925-1977), Bessie Head (1937-1986), Toni Morrison (1931-2019)
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Table of Contents

Introduction : Clarice Lispector, subjectivity and the national. The threshold of the unspeakable
The pathological as a way into the national
Part I. 'A Question of Power" : unspeakable miscegenation ; Haunting in Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'
Part II. Welcoming the ghost : haunting in "A paixão segundo G. H.' ; Whiteness and the construction of subjectivity in 'O lustre' ; Modernization and the phantasmagoria of commodities in 'A cidade sitiada' ; Racism and the performance of whiteness in 'A hora da estrela'
Conclusion.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-198) and index.

English and Portuguese.

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London
Other Titles
Reading Clarice Lispector through Bessie Head and Toni Morrison

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Library of Congress
PQ9697.L585 Z95 2011, PQ9697.L585Z945 2011, PQ9697.L585, PQ9697.L585 Z924 2011

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Pagination
202 p. ;
Number of pages
202

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OL25315135M
ISBN 10
1906540470
ISBN 13
9781906540470
LCCN
2011456977
OCLC/WorldCat
757855989, 1019578572

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