Sweet Marmalade, Sour Oranges: Contemporary Portuguese Women's Fiction
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Edited by Alice R. Clemente, with various translators, 1994. ISBN 0-943722-20-9
Portuguese women's fiction of the post-revolutionary era, like that of the men, has been marked by developments both within and beyond the country's borders. The authors of the works collected here responded to the events leading up to and following the Revolution of 1974. The influence of the nouveau roman and the literature of the Latin American Boom is also evident in their work. This anthology introduces the English-speaking reader to the kinds of writing produced when, after a period of severe repression, women were suddenly free to speak in a climate that was at once artistically challenging and politically expansive and receptive.
Alice Clemente is Emeritus Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature at Smith College and an Adjunct Professor at Brown University.
Portuguese women's fiction of the post-revolutionary era, like that of the men, has been marked by developments both within and beyond the country's borders. The authors of the works collected here responded to the events leading up to and following the Revolution of 1974. The influence of the nouveau roman and the literature of the Latin American Boom is also evident in their work. This anthology introduces the English-speaking reader to the kinds of writing produced when, after a period of severe repression, women were suddenly free to speak in a climate that was at once artistically challenging and politically expansive and receptive.
Alice Clemente is Emeritus Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature at Smith College and an Adjunct Professor at Brown University.
