03452nam 2200769Ia 450 991081363000332120240418102515.00-8166-5652-5(CKB)1000000000692385(EBL)380884(OCoLC)476210599(SSID)ssj0000277655(PQKBManifestationID)11253996(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000277655(PQKBWorkID)10234411(PQKB)10393504(MiAaPQ)EBC380884(OCoLC)437241609(MdBmJHUP)muse38893(Au-PeEL)EBL380884(CaPaEBR)ebr10257024(CaONFJC)MIL525719(EXLCZ)99100000000069238520080428d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCannibal democracy[electronic resource] race and representation in the literature of the Americas /Zita Nunes1st ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20081 online resource (241 p.)Critical American studies seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8166-4841-7 0-8166-4840-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-200) and index.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.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 the contemporary discourse of democracy. Cannibal Democracy tracks its central metaphor's circulation through the workCritical American studies series.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismBrazilian literatureHistory and criticismCaribbean literatureHistory and criticismMetaphorCannibalism in literatureRace relations in literatureDemocracy in literatureUnited StatesRace relationsHistoriographyBrazilRace relationsHistoriographyCaribbean AreaRace relationsHistoriographyAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.Brazilian literatureHistory and criticism.Caribbean literatureHistory and criticism.Metaphor.Cannibalism in literature.Race relations in literature.Democracy in literature.305.896/07Nunes Zita1648272MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813630003321Cannibal democracy3996286UNINA