A Journey to the Self: The Quest for Identity in Clarice Lispector's Fiction.
One of the best representatives of Latin American literature, Clarice Lispector has always fascinated her readers. Her novels bring into question some major aesthetic and ideological issues, sometimes under the mask of elaborated textual games implying innovative narrative strategies and a new way o...
| Publicado en: | Theory in Action Vol. 16; no. 4; pp. 36 - 56 |
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Transformative Studies Institute
Oct2023
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