Postcolonial perspectives on the cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa
By: edited with an introduction by Robin Fiddian.
Contributors: Fiddian, Robin W.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Liverpool
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Latin America -- Civilization -- 20th century -- Congresses.; Africa, Portuguese-speaking -- Civilization -- 20th century -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on a symposium held in Oxford, 1998.
Table of contents: title: Locating the object, mapping the field : the place of the cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa in postcolonial studies / Robin Fiddian; title: On metropolitan readings of Latin American cultures : ethical questions of postcolonial critical practice / Mark I. Millington; title: Ignoble barbarians : revisiting Latin American modernisms / Else Vieira; title: José Carlos Mariatégui / Patricia d'Allemand; title: Doing time in Peru : the poetics of multitemporality as method for cultural history / William Rowe; title: America, Americanism and the third world in the work of Leopoldo Zea / Robin Fiddian; title: Fernando Ortiz's transculturation : the postcolonial intellectual and the politics of cultural representation / Catherine Davies; title: Caribbean masks : Frantz Fanon and Alejo Carpentier / Stephen Henighan; title: Colonial crosswords : invoicing the gap in Mia Couto / Maria Manuel Lisboa.