How Long to Read Gender, Discourse, and Desire in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Women's Literature

How Long Does it Take to Read Gender, Discourse, and Desire in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Women's Literature?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 51 minutes to read Gender, Discourse, and Desire in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Women's Literature by Cristina Ferreira-Pinto

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This study by Cristina Ferreira-Pinto explores the poetic and narrative strategies twentieth-century Brazilian women writers use to achieve new forms of representation of the female body, sexuality, and desire. Female writers discussed include: Gilka Machado, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Marcia Denser, and Marina Colasanti. While creating new forms, these writers are also deconstructing cultural myths of femininity and female behavior. In order to understand these myths, the book also presents new readings of some male-authored canonical novels by Jose de Alencar, Machado de Assis, Manuel Antonio de Almeida, and Aluisio Azevedo. The specific focus on female sexuality and desire acknowledges the intrinsic link between sexuality and an individual's sense of identity, and its importance for female identity, given the historical repression of women's bodies and the double standard of morality still pervasive in many Western cultures. In the discussion of the strategies Brazilian female poets and fiction writers employ, Ferreira-Pinto addresses some social and cultural issues that relate to a woman's sense of her own body and sexuality: the characterization of women based on racial features and class hierarchy; marriage; motherhood; the silencing of the lesbian subject; and aging. Ferreira-Pinto's analysis is informed by the works of various and diverse critics and theoreticians, among them Helene Cixous, Teresa De Lauretis, Adrienne Rich, Gloria Anzaldua, Georges Bataille, and Wilhelm Reich.

How long is Gender, Discourse, and Desire in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Women's Literature?

Gender, Discourse, and Desire in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Women's Literature by Cristina Ferreira-Pinto is 226 pages long, and a total of 57,856 words.

This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 71% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Gender, Discourse, and Desire in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Women's Literature Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 16 minutes to read Gender, Discourse, and Desire in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Women's Literature aloud.

What Reading Level is Gender, Discourse, and Desire in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Women's Literature?

Gender, Discourse, and Desire in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Women's Literature is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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