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UNINA9910454534803321 |
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Autore |
Nunes Zita |
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Titolo |
Cannibal democracy [[electronic resource] ] : race and representation in the literature of the Americas / / Zita Nunes |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Collana |
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Critical American studies series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - African American authors - History and criticism |
Brazilian literature - History and criticism |
Caribbean literature - History and criticism |
Metaphor |
Cannibalism in literature |
Race relations in literature |
Democracy in literature |
Electronic books. |
United States Race relations Historiography |
Brazil Race relations Historiography |
Caribbean Area Race relations Historiography |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-200) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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United by anthropophagism -- Bringing in the dead : nostalgia and the refusal of loss in Gilberto Freyre's Casa Grande e Senzala -- The foreigner and the remainder -- The new Negro and the turn to South America -- The remainder is a reminder : cannibalizing the remains of the past. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Zita Nunes argues that the prevailing narratives of identity formation throughout the Americas share a dependence on metaphors of incorporation and, often, of cannibalism. From the position of the incorporating body, the construction of a national and racial identity through a process of assimilation presupposes a remainder, a residue. Nunes addresses works by writers and artists who explore what is left behind in the formation of national identities and speak to the limits of |
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