tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20306110.post4434111346653369451..comments2023-06-06T08:36:19.228-05:00Comments on Unbeached Whale: The Lines of Demarcation, Beauty, and Liposuction: Or How the Daughter of German Immigrants Changed the Land of the SambaLittlemilkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08875308841224185781noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20306110.post-1997056418872752572007-01-17T02:12:00.000-05:002007-01-17T02:12:00.000-05:00Reading of the crossover of globalized white supre...Reading of the crossover of globalized white supremacist notions of anorexic beauty to women of African descent, I immediate thought of Clarice Lispector's stunning last novel, <i>The Hour of the Star</i>, and the suffering its Northeastern heroine undergoes as she tries and fails to fit in in the metropole, but also I thought of the work of another great Brazilian outsider, Marilene Felinto's <i>The Women of Tijucopapo</i>, whose discursive project in part wages a symbolic battle against the tyranny of such standards--of beauty, subjectivity, socialization, you name it. The text literally erupts again and again.... I wonder what Felinto, who lives and writes in São Paulo, has to say about all this?John Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08073378940347627766noreply@blogger.com