Revisiting Female Sexual Honor during the Brazilian Dictatorship (1964-85) in Leilah Assunção’s Fala Baixo Senão Eu Grito and Nelson Rodrigues’ Toda Nudez Será Castigada

This article presents an analysis of two female characters on Rodrigues’ and Assunção’s plays, Geni (Toda Nudez Será Castigada) and Mariazinha (Fala Baixo Senão Eu Grito). It will look at the ways the characters’ expose their literal silences (half sentences, unspoken gestures, desire to speak) into...

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Main Author: Isadora Grevan de Carvalho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Latin American Research Commons 2019-05-01
Series:Latin American Literary Review
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Online Access:https://account.lalrp.net/index.php/lasa-j-lalr/article/view/90