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Record Nr.

UNINA9910838185003321

Autore

Kylousek Petr

Titolo

Centers and Peripheries in Romance Language Literatures in the Americas and Africa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : BRILL, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

90-04-69113-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (639 pages)

Collana

Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature Series ; ; v.105

Disciplina

840.09

Soggetti

Romance-language literature - America - History and criticism

Romance-language literature - Africa - History and criticism

Romance-language literature - Philosophy

Literature and society

Literature and globalization

Essays.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

"What is center and periphery? How can centers and peripheries be recognized by their ontological and axiological features? How does the axiological saturation of a literary field condition aesthetics? How did these factors transform center-periphery relationships to the former metropolises of Romance literatures of the Americas and Africa? What are the consequences of various deperipheralization contexts and processes for poetics? Using theoretical sections and case studies, this book surveys and investigates the limits of globalization. Through explorations of the intercultural dynamics, the aesthetic contributions of former peripheries are examined in terms of the transformative nature of peripheries on centralities"--