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Contents Acknowledgments / ix Introduction / 1 Carmen Dolores / A Drama in the Countryside (1907) / 13 Julia Lopes de Almeida / From He and She (191 0) / 27 Rachel de Queiroz / From The Year Fifteen (1930) / 36 Clarice Lispector / The Flight (1940) / 52 Sra. Leandro Dupre / From We Were Six (1943) / 58 Emi Bulhoes Carvalho da Fonseca / In the Silence of the Big House (1944) / 76 Lucia Benedetti / My Uncle Ricardo (1950) / 84 Dinah Silveira de Queiroz / Jovita (1957) / 91 Lia Correia Dutra / A Perfect World (1957) / 110 Lygia Fagundes Telles / Just a Saxophone (1969) / 122 vii viii Contents Adalgisa Nery / Premeditated Coincidence (1972) / 140 Hilda Hi/st / Agda (1973) / 146 Nelida Pinon / Near East (1973) / 156 Tania Jamardo Faillace / Dorceli (1975) / 163 Elisa Lispector / The Fragile Balance (1977) / 174 Edla van Steen / The Sleeping Beauty (Script of a Useless Life) (1978) / 180 Marina Colasanti / Little Girl in Red, on Her Way to the Moon (1980) / 194 Marcia Denser / The Vampire of Whitehouse Lane (1980) / 204 Lya Luft / From The Left Wing of the Angel (1981) / 215 Sonia Coutinho / Every Lana Turner Has Her Johnny Stompanato (1985) / 228 List of Selected Works / 237 ...

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