Examining Whiteness

Reading Clarice Lispector Through Bessie Head and Toni Morrison

Lucia Villares (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

214 Seiten

2010
Legenda (Verlag)
978-1-906540-47-0 (ISBN)

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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.

Lucia Villares

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.11.2010
Verlagsort	Leeds
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 247 mm
Gewicht	460 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-906540-47-0 / 1906540470
ISBN-13	978-1-906540-47-0 / 9781906540470
Zustand	Neuware