Synopses & Reviews
"Appearing for the first time in English, these stories express the anguish and courage of women from their different classes and regions as they recognize their common restlessness and forge a new consciousness."
About the Author
DARLENE J. SADLIER, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies at Indiana University, is author of The Question of How: Women Writers and New Portuguese Literature.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Carmen Dolores / A Drama in the Countryside (1907)
Julia Lopes de Almeida / From He and She (1910)
Rachel de Queiroz / From The Year Fifteen (1930)
Clarice Lispector / The Flight (1940)
Sra. Leandro Dupre / From We Were Six (1943)
Emi Bulhoes Carvalho da Fonseca / In the Silence of the Big House (1944)
Lucia Benedetti /My Uncle Ricardo (1950)
Dinah Silveira de Queiroz / Jovita (1957)
Lia Correia Dutra / A Perfect World (1957)
Lygia Fagundes Telles / Just a Saxophone (1969)
Adalgisa Nery / Premeditated Coincidence (1972)
Hilda Hilst / Agda (1973)
Nelida Pinon / Near East (1973)
Tania Jamardo Faillace / Dorceli (1975)
Elisa Lispector / The Fragile Balance (1977)
Edla van Steen / The Sleeping Beauty (Script of a Useless Life) (1978)
Marina Colasanti / Little Girl in Red, on Her Way to the Moon (1980)
Marcia Denser / The Vampire of Whitehouse Lane (1980)
Lya Luft / From The Left Wing of the Angel (1981)
Sonia Coutinho / Every Lana Turner Has Her Johnny Stompanato (1985)
List of Selected Works