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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453169503321

Titolo

Postcolonial perspectives on the cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa [[electronic resource] /] / edited with an introduction by Robin Fiddian

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2000

ISBN

1-78138-813-X

1-84631-385-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FiddianRobin W

Disciplina

144.0946

306.098

306/.098

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Latin America History 20th century

Latin America Civilization 20th century

Africa, Portuguese-speaking Civilization 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on a symposium held in Oxford, 1998.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Locating the Object, Mapping the Field: the Place of the Cultures of Latin American and Lusophone Africa in Postcolonial Studies; 1. On Metropolitan Readings of Latin American Cultures: Ethical Questions of Postcolonial Critical Practice; 2. Ig/noble Barbarians: Revisiting Latin American Modernisms; 3. José Carlos Mariátegui: Culture and the Nation; 4. Doing Time in Peru: the Poetics of Multitemporality as Method for Cultural History; 5. America, Americanism and the Third World in the Work of Leopoldo Zea

6. Fernando Ortiz's Transculturation: the Postcolonial Intellectual and the Politics of Cultural Representation7. Caribbean Masks: Frantz Fanon and Alejo Carpentier; 8. Colonial Crosswords: (In)voicing the Gap in Mia Couto; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume surveys the range of texts, authors and topics from the literary and non-literary cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa, adopting a set of perspectives that are grounded in the discipline of postcolonial studies. Using comparative and contrastive



methods, Postcolonial Perspectives reinterprets cultural landmarks and traditions of Latin America and Lusophone Africa.