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Clarice Lispector
(1920-77)
Brazilian novelist
 1 other title

Gender and sexuality
 28 other titles

Legenda: Oxford, 2002
£35.00 ($65.00 US)  Paperback  254pp
ISBN: 1-900755-62-9

The Brazilian author Clarice Lispector (1920-77) is arguably Latin America’s most celebrated woman writer. Yet her prose has remained tantalizingly elusive, resisting any facile appropriation and lending itself to being read in a variety of contexts. Lispector’s enigmatic yet luminous writings warrant fresh, multidisciplinary readings. Here, twelve distinguished international scholars discuss the modernity pulsating throughout Lispector’s work, examining not only her unconventional novels and famous short stories, but also her chronicles and children’s books, in order to reassess her groundbreaking exploration of the fluid categories of gender and genre, and her hybrid textualizations of time, self and nation.

Cláudia Pazos Alonso is a Senior Research Fellow in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Wadham College, University of Oxford. She is the author of Imagens do eu na poesia de Florbela Espanca (Lisbon, 1997). CLAIRE WILLIAMS lectures in Portuguese Language, Literature, History and Culture at the University of Liverpool, where she is assistant editor of the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies.

With the contributions:

Carlos Mendes de Sousa — Mother, Body, Writing: the Origins and Identity of Literature in Clarice Lispector
Anna M. Klobucka — Clarice Lispector by Clarice Lispector
Claire Williams — ‘Eu sou nome’: Clarice Lispector’s Dramatis Personae
Patricia Zecevic — Lóri’s Journey: The Quest for Identity in Uma aprendizagem ou o livro dos prazeres
Cláudia Pazos Alonso — Defamiliarization and Déjà Vu in Laços de família
Luiza Lobo — Feminism or the Ambiguities of the Feminine in Clarice Lispector
Marta Peixoto — ‘Fatos são pedras duras’: Urban Poverty in Clarice Lispector
Lucia Villares — The Black Maid as Ghost: Haunting in A paixão segundo G.H.
Paulo de Medeiros — Clarice Lispector and the Question of the Nation
Teresa Montero — The Early Dissemination of Clarice Lispector’s Literary Works in the United States
Nádia Battella Gotlib — Readers of Clarice, Who Are You?
William Paulson — The Invention of a Non-Modern World