Sexuality and Being in the Poststructuralist Universe of Clarice Lispector: The Difference of Desire
by Earl E. Fitz
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Driven by an unfulfilled desire for the unattainable, ultimately indefinable Other, the protagonists of the novels and stories of acclaimed Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector exemplify and humanize many of the issues central to poststructuralist thought, from the nature of language, truth, and meaning to the unstable relationships between language, being, and reality. In this book, Earl Fitz demonstrates that, in turn, poststructuralism offers important and revealing insights into all show more aspects of Lispector's writing, including her style, sense of structure, characters, themes, and socio-political conscience. Fitz draws on Lispector's entire oeuvre—novels, stories, crônicas, and children's literature—to argue that her writing consistently reflects the basic tenets of poststructuralist theory. He shows how Lispector's characters struggle over and humanize poststructuralist dilemmas and how their essential sense of being is deeply dependent on a shifting, and typically transgressive, sense of desire and sexuality. show lessTags
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Earl E. Fitz is professor of Portuguese, Spanish and Comparative Literature at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches courses on Brazilian and Spanish American literature, comparative approaches to Latin American literature, inter-American literature, Comparative Literature and translation. He is the author of numerous articles and of such show more studies as Machado de Assis (1989), Rediscovering the New World: Inter-American Literature in a Comparative Context (1991), Brazilian Narrative Traditions in a Comparative Context (2005), and (with Dr. Elizabeth Lowe) Translation and the Rise of Inter-American Literature (2007). show less
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