Sexuality and Being in the Poststructuralist Universe of Clarice Lispector

The Différance of Desire

By:

Earl E Fitz

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Texas Pan American Series

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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 humanise 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 aspects of Lispector's writing, including her style, sense of structure, characters, themes, and sociopolitical conscience. Fitz draws on Lispector's entire oeuvre-novels, stories, cronicas, 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.

Author Biography:

Earl E. Fitz is Professor of Portuguese, Spanish, and Comparative Literature and Director of the Program in Comparative Literature at Vanderbilt University.

Release date NZ

August 1st, 2001

Author

Earl E Fitz

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

256

Series

Texas Pan American Series

Dimensions

3895x5830x14

ISBN-13

9780292725294

Product ID

3040687

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