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For Clarice Lispector, narrative demands a victim, and Marta Peixoto details the dynamics of victimization that her writing describes. By the end of this study, we are left with a sense of Lispector's work which is less comfortable but infinitely more complicated and interesting.

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The young artist and the snares of gender; Female power in family ties; The nurturing text in Helene Cixous and Clarice Lispector; A woman writing - fiction and autobiography in the stream of life and the stations of the body; Rape and textual violence; Afterword - the violence of a heart.

Passionate Fictions Gender Narrative and Violence in Clarice Lispector

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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      For Clarice Lispector, narrative demands a victim, and Marta Peixoto details the dynamics of victimization that her writing describes. By the end of this study, we are left with a sense of Lispector's work which is less comfortable but infinitely more complicated and interesting.

      Table of Contents
      The young artist and the snares of gender; Female power in family ties; The nurturing text in Helene Cixous and Clarice Lispector; A woman writing - fiction and autobiography in the stream of life and the stations of the body; Rape and textual violence; Afterword - the violence of a heart.

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