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Head, Bessie

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"Critics consider Clarice Lispector the leading female writer in the Brazilian literary canon. Her connections with the nation, however, seem to magically disappear as her work is analysed. This paradox is the starting point for this analysis of the works of an author who--despite being born in the Ukraine--grew up to become an irreplaceable presence in Brazilian literature. Non-Brazilian authors, such as the South African Bessie Head and the North American Toni Morrison, provide triggering concepts to help tackle a blind-spot in Brazilian culture: the issue of racial difference. From this new perspective overlooked black characters in Lispector's work become crucial and relevant, and whiteness emerges as an iunexamined set of norms"--Publisher's description, back cover.

Lispector, Clarice --- Head, Bessie, --- Morrison, Toni. --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Head, Bessie --- Blackburn (douglas) --- Hastings (beatrice) --- Leroux (etienne) --- Literary biography --- Maclean (charles) --- Renault (mary) --- Rive (richard) --- Sepamla (sipho) --- Wolfe (edward)

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Critiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of Race challenges the critical emphasis on otherness in treatments of race in literary and cultural studies. Sue J. Kim deftly argues that this treatment not only perpetuates narrow identity politics, but obscures the political and economic structures that shape issues of race in literary studies. Kim s revelatory book shows how reading authors through their identity ends up neglecting both complex historical contexts and aesthetic forms. This comparative study calls for a reconsideration of the bases for critical engagement and a reading ethics that melds the best of historicist and formalist approaches to literature.

Postmodernism (Literature) --- Other (Philosophy) in literature. --- Marginality, Social, in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Pynchon, Thomas. --- Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung. --- Head, Bessie,

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Sociology of minorities --- Thematology --- Literature --- Race --- Literature --- Writers --- Blackness --- Book --- Hurston, Zora Neale --- Morrison, Toni --- Naylor, Gloria --- Walker, Alice --- Mirkin Cade, Miltona --- Head, Bessie --- anno 1900-1999 --- United States of America