Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- Introduction
- Part I Women in Ancient America: The Indigenous World
- Part II Women Writers in Creole Societies: Nation Building Projects
- 6 New Genres, New Explorations of Womanhood
- 7 Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Women Writers and Nation Building
- 8 Sense and Sensibility
- 9 The Lyrical World in the Nineteenth Century
- 10 “That Damned Mob of Scribbling Women”
- 11 Literature by Women in the Spanish Antilles (1800–1950)
- Part III Women Writers In-Between: Socialist, Modern, Developmentalists, and Liberal Democratic Ideals
- Part IV Women Writers in a One–World Global System: Neoliberalism, Sexuality, Subjectivity
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
7 - Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Women Writers and Nation Building
Invisibilities, Affiliations, Resistances
from Part II - Women Writers in Creole Societies: Nation Building Projects
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- Introduction
- Part I Women in Ancient America: The Indigenous World
- Part II Women Writers in Creole Societies: Nation Building Projects
- 6 New Genres, New Explorations of Womanhood
- 7 Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Women Writers and Nation Building
- 8 Sense and Sensibility
- 9 The Lyrical World in the Nineteenth Century
- 10 “That Damned Mob of Scribbling Women”
- 11 Literature by Women in the Spanish Antilles (1800–1950)
- Part III Women Writers In-Between: Socialist, Modern, Developmentalists, and Liberal Democratic Ideals
- Part IV Women Writers in a One–World Global System: Neoliberalism, Sexuality, Subjectivity
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter focuses on major nineteenth-century women novelists and on the extent of their participation in the project of writing nationhood, despite their supposedly limited experience. It addresses questions such as how their novels interrogate the social arrangements and the aesthetic ideology of romantic fictions of identity and how they appropriated a masculine genre to delineate a tradition of resistance to the confluence of gender and genre. The chapter begins with three pioneer women writers, Cecilia Meireles, Rachel de Queiroz and Clarice Lispector, who produced pieces of imaginative prose as examples that combine the employment of gender-conscious authorship with a desire to represent woman as a political gesture. Finally, the chapter examines a selected body of writers and works that stand as a literary subculture that evolved under the emergence of a new Brazilian woman and the woman of letters particularly in the cultures of historiography and of literary criticism.
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- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature , pp. 117 - 132Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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