Postcolonial perspectives on the cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa / [electronic resource]
Fiddian, Robin W.,editor.
This volume surveys the range of texts, authors and topics from the literary and non-literary cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa, adopting a set of perspectives that are grounded in the discipline of postcolonial studies. Using comparative and contrastive methods, Postcolonial Perspectives reinterprets cultural landmarks and traditions of Latin America and Lusophone Africa.
Title Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Locating the Object, Mapping the Field: the Place of the Cultures of Latin American and Lusophone Africa in Postcolonial Studies; 1. On Metropolitan Readings of Latin American Cultures: Ethical Questions of Postcolonial Critical Practice; 2. Ig/noble Barbarians: Revisiting Latin American Modernisms; 3. José Carlos Mariátegui: Culture and the Nation; 4. Doing Time in Peru: the Poetics of Multitemporality as Method for Cultural History; 5. America, Americanism and the Third World in the Work of Leopoldo Zea
6. Fernando Ortiz's Transculturation: the Postcolonial Intellectual and the Politics of Cultural Representation7. Caribbean Masks: Frantz Fanon and Alejo Carpentier; 8. Colonial Crosswords: (In)voicing the Gap in Mia Couto; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This volume surveys the range of texts, authors and topics from the literary and non-literary cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa, adopting a set of perspectives that are grounded in the discipline of postcolonial studies. Using comparative and contrastive methods, Postcolonial Perspectives reinterprets cultural landmarks and traditions of Latin America and Lusophone Africa.