Androgynous Voices in the Novels of Cristina Peri Rossi
Lesbian novelist Cristina Peri Rossi employs a variety of strategies to express desire which transcends generic/gender and social limits. Her characters develop a knowledge of their place in the world based on a masculine/universal perspective which is informed by a feminine/androgynous sensibility....
| Veröffentlicht in: | Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal. - University of Manitoba. - 30(1997), 3, Seite 97-114 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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1997
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal |
| Schlagworte: | Social sciences Arts Biological sciences Linguistics Behavioral sciences |
| Zusammenfassung: | Lesbian novelist Cristina Peri Rossi employs a variety of strategies to express desire which transcends generic/gender and social limits. Her characters develop a knowledge of their place in the world based on a masculine/universal perspective which is informed by a feminine/androgynous sensibility. Peri Rossi's assumption of the masculine persona is at once a performative and exploratory linguistic gesture. |
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| ISSN: | 19255683 |