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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Kaler, Anne K
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| Publisher: |
University of Wisconsin Press
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| Date: |
01/01/1991
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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Courtesan and criminal, thief and trollop, warrior and wanderer-the picara embodies the continuing archetypal pattern of a woman's autonomy. She is the sly sharpster in Defoe's heroines such as Roxana and Moll Flanders. With an ancestress like Becky Sharp, the picara evolves into Scarlett O'Hara before finding a comfortable niche as the female hero in fantasy written by women.
The Picara traces the development of this character, from an autonomous woman in a harsh patriarchal society to the female hero of the modern fantasy novel.
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