Essays on Hilda Hilst Between Brazil and World Literature /
The first collection of critical essays on Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) published in English, this book brings together a variety of perspectives on one of Latin America's most inventive and innovative authors. Nine essays by scholars and translators reflect about various aspects of her work, placin...
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Springer International Publishing,
2018.
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Schriftenreihe: | Literatures of the Americas
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| ISBN: | 9783319563183 |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: "Who's Afraid of Hilda Hilst? An Author Between Brazil and 'World Literature'"; Adam Morris & Bruno Carvalho
- PART I: HILST ON STAGE- 1. "A Brazilian Teorema: Queering the Family in Hilda Hilst's O Visitante (The Visitor)"; David William Foster
- 2. "Is the Word Alive? An Inquiry into Poetics and Theater in As aves da noite (Nightbirds) by Hilda Hilst"; Tatiana Franca R. Zanirato
- PART II: OBSCENITY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION- 3. "Figurations of Eros in Hilda Hilst"; Eliane Robert Moraes
- 4. "Hilda Hilst, Metaphysician"; Adam Morris
- PART III: HILST IN NATIONAL AND GLOBAL CONTEXT- 5. "A Nation on the Ground Floor: The Face of Brazil, Drawn with Hilda Hilst's Political Pen"; Deneval Siqueira de Azevedo Filho
- 6. "When Life is Extremely Bourgeois": Ideal love and non-conformism in the love poems of Hilda Hilst; Alva Martínez Teixeiro
- PART IV: HILST IN TRANSLATION
- 7. "Translating Brazil's Marquise de Sade"; John Keene
- 8. "Derelict of Duty"; Nathanaël
- 9. Hilst on Hilst: Excerpts from interviews with the author, 1952-2003.