DOI
10.2307/j.ctv33b9pk1.27
Author ORCID Identifier
Mariela Méndez: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0344-7548
Abstract
"In 2013, to commemorate its fortieth year anniversary, the popular Brazilian Sunday newsmagazine programme ‘Fantástico’ aired ‘Correio Feminino’ [Ladies’ Mail], a unique adaptation of the columns that Clarice Lispector crafted under the pseudonym Helen Palmer for the newspaper Correio da Manhã between 1959 and 1961. Blogger Mauricio Stycer praised the eight-episode series created by Luiz Fernando Carvalho as ‘surpreendente e ousada’ [surprising and daring]. It was indeed surprising, and daring, for a programme that usually favours ‘hot’ topics, and parades popular music icons like Shakira and Demi Lovato, to pick as one of its commemorative highlights the work of one of the most revered and hermetic Brazilian literary figures. Even though the tone of the series, in keeping with a newspaper column focused on so-called women’s issues, was direct, colloquial and intimate (unlike Lispector’s fiction), the choice made by ‘Fantástico’ was nonetheless unusual. Isaiana Carla Pereira dos Santos and Tobias Queiroz take this decision as a starting point for examining the reasons why the series received extremely low TV ratings and poor reviews."
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2022
Publisher Statement
Modern Humanities Research Association, Legenda.
Recommended Citation
Méndez, Mariela. “Que(e)Rying Femininities: Clarice Lispector’s ‘Correio Feminino’ on TV Globo.” In After Clarice: Reading Lispector’s Legacy in the Twenty-First Century, NED-New edition, vol. 14, edited by Adriana X. Jacobs and Claire Williams. Modern Humanities Research Association, 2022. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv33b9pk1.27.
