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

ISBN-13: 9781906540470 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 214 str.

Lucia Villares

Opis

Critics consider Clarice Lispector the leading female writer in the Brazilian literary canon. Her connections with the nation seem to magically disappear as her work is analysed. This title presents an analysis of the works of an author who - despite being born in the Ukraine - grew up to be an irreplacable presence in Brazilian literature.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Lucia Villares