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UNINA9910782249703321 |
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Postcolonial perspectives on the cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa / / edited with an introduction by Robin Fiddian [[electronic resource]] |
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Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2000 |
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1-78138-813-X |
1-84631-385-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 218 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Latin America Civilization 20th century Congresses |
Africa, Portuguese-speaking Civilization 20th century Congresses |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jul 2017). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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