Orientalisms of the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian world
By: edited by Araceli Tinajero
Publisher: Escribana Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9781940075099
Subjects: Orientalism in literature; Orientalism in art; Orientalism; Latin American literature; History and criticism; Asian influences; Spanish literature; Brazilian literature; Portuguese literature; In literature; Exoticism in literature
Description: "Even though over the last three decades several books on Western-Eastern encounters have been published, this book offers a new approach to the way we look at current writers of Spanish and Portuguese and their vigor and creativity in guiding us towards a deeper understanding of Orientalism. The chapters in thie volume explore novels, short stories, poems, essays and chlonicles of prominent writers of the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian world through the lens of transmodernity in a way that blurs borders and gracefully blends fiction with our own perceived cultural and personal realities. The essays take us from images of China and Japan in the writings of Camilo Pessanha and Wenceslau de Moraes to the Orientalism in Grande sert̃ão : veredas with refreshing approaches to the linguistic and thematic uniqueness of this influential Brazilian novel. Moreover, the book offers compelling observations of Spanish-Middle Eastern Orientalisms by looking at recent texts which include Mohamed Akalay's Entre Tánger y Larache as well as María Dueńas's El tiempo entre costuras by recognizing the palpable historical, geographic and transnational connections that exist between Spain and the Middle East. Further, this study tackles the multifaceted nature of how twenty-first century novelists portray Asia by inviting us to look at ghosts and the human body in Mario Bellatín's most recent novels and to face the realities of cultural amnesia and self-discovery in Christina Rivera Garza's Verde Shanghai. This book is essential to those who want to understand East-West encounters in a way that is striking, unique, and academically robust." --Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index .
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Aracheli Tinajero; title: Camilo Pessanha and Wenceslau de Moraes : images from China and Japan / Paulo Franchetti; title: The Mu-theme in Grande sert̃ão : veredas / Jizelda F. Galvão; title: Hybrid language and space : tensions between orientalism and occidentalism in Mohamed Akalay's Entre tãnger y larache / Kenneth Yanes; title: Visions of orientalism in María Dueńas's El tiempo entre costuras / Christina Vázquez Mauricio; title: Mario Bellatín : ghosts, the human body, and the spaces where they meet / Kathryn Mendez; title: Ella, yo y el yotro : orientalisms and identities in Christina Rivera Garza's Verde Shanghai / Jennifer Prince; title: About the editor; title: Index.