Cannibal modernities
Subtitle: postcoloniality and the avant-garde in Caribbean and Brazilian literature
By: Luís Madureira.
Series: New World studies
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Caribbean literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Brazilian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-247) and index.
Table of contents: value: Lapses in taste : antropofagia as the primitive aesthetic of underdeveloped Brazil; value: In the land of the great serpent : the poetics of national development and the sublime topography of the Amazon; value: God in the machine : primitivism, national identity, and the question of technology in Mário de Andrade's Macunaíma; value: Cannibal allegories : cinema novo and the "myth" of popular cinema; value: The shadow cast by the Enlightenment : the Haitian revolution and the naming of modernity's other; value: The marvelous royalty of Henri Christophe's kingdom : cultural difference and the temporality of underdevelopment; value: "Something new in a decaying world" : Alejo Carpentier's El siglo de las luces, or, The signs of progress on the margins of history.