1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456304803321

Autore

Rochlin James Francis <1956->

Titolo

Discovering the Americas [[electronic resource] ] : the evolution of Canadian foreign policy towards Latin America / / James Rochlin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : UBC Press, c1994

ISBN

7-7480-4777-4

1-283-22591-3

9786613225917

0-7748-5650-5

Descrizione fisica

300 p. : maps ; ; 23 cm

Collana

Canada and international relations, , 0847-0510 ; ; 8

Disciplina

327.7108

Soggetti

International relations

Electronic books.

Canada Foreign relations Latin America

Latin America Foreign relations Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781810303321

Titolo

Texts, tasks, and theories [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Tobias Robert Klein, Ulrike Auga & Viola Prüschenk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007

ISBN

94-012-0564-7

1-4356-4461-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Matatu ; ; no. 35

Versions and subversions in African literatures ; ; 3

Humboldt contributions ; ; v. 3

Altri autori (Persone)

KleinTobias Robert

AugaUlrike

PrüschenkViola

Disciplina

808

809.896

Soggetti

African literature - History and criticism

Postcolonialism in literature

Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Texts, Tasks, and Theories; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND NOTICE; INTRODUCTION; LANGUAGE, MODERNISM, AND MODERNITY; NEW READINGS IN AFRICAN LITERATURE AND POSTCOLONIAL THEORY; AFRICAN LITERATURE AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY: IDENTITY, DISSIDENCE, AND CULTURAL PRACTICE; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS AND EDITORS; NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

African literary theory has recently gained immensely from an emerging multitude of perspectives and scholarly approaches. This volume offers a welcome opportunity to assess trends in the twenty-first century's discourse on African literature: Twelve different articles treat such lively issues as modernity, nation, civil society, postcolonial theory, and feminism, relating these both to more recent short stories, poems, and novels and to a large variety of texts that have in one way or another acquired canonical status. The first section "Language, Modernity and



Modernism" explores social and a