Colonialism and race in Luso-Hispanic literature
By: Jerome C. Branche.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780826216137
Subjects: Latin American literature -- History and criticism; Race in literature; Racism in literature; National characteristics, Latin American, in literature
Description: "Branche examines a wide variety of Latin American literature and discourse to show the extent and range of racist sentiments throughout the culture. He argues that racism in the modern period (1415-1948) was a tool used to advance Spanish and Portuguese expansion, colonial enterprise, and the international development of capitalism"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Iberian antecedents; title: Slavery and the syntax of subpersonhood; title: Tez de mulato : race, writing, and the antislavery premise; title: Negrism, modernism, nationalism, and a Palesian paradox; title: Menegildo, Macandal, and marvelous realism : of iconicity and otherness.