Title: Postcolonial perspectives on the cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa /
Authors: Fiddian, Robin W.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Latin America Civilization; Africa, Portuguese-speaking Civilization; Latin America Civilization Congresses.; Africa, Portuguese-speaking Civilization Congresses.
Abstract: Aimed at a readership in postcolonial, Luso-Brazilian and Latin American Studies, this surveys the range of texts, authors and topics from the literary and non-literary cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa, adopting perspectives that are grounded in the discipline of postcolonial studies.
Contents: Locating the object, mapping the field : the place of the cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa in postcolonial studies / Robin Fiddian -- On metropolitan readings of Latin American cultures : ethical questions of postcolonial critical practice / Mark I. Millington -- Ignoble barbarians : revisiting Latin American modernisms / Else Vieira -- José Carlos Mariatégui / Patricia d'Allemand.