Lídia Jorge's Combateremos a sombra: psychoanalysis, tragedy and ethics.
Even though Lídia Jorge's fiction is known to testify to the socio-economic, cultural and moral effects of Portugal's transition from a rural, fascist and colonial society to an urban, neo-liberal and postcolonial one, its object is not an abstract collective entity but, rather, concrete individuals...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Romance Studies Vol. 11; no. 3; pp. 9 - 27 |
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