Essays on Hilda Hilst Between Brazil and World Literature /

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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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Morris, Adam (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Carvalho, Bruno (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Literatures of the Americas
Subjects:
Latin American literature.
Poetry.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Ethnology-Latin America.
Latin American/Caribbean Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Latin American Culture.
Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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