LEADER 04023nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910790290703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-12854-2 010 $a9786613532428 010 $a1-61249-164-2 035 $a(CKB)2670000000182788 035 $a(OCoLC)787852071 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10546081 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000649879 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11388934 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000649879 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10610241 035 $a(PQKB)11414213 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3119190 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10546081 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL353242 035 $a(OCoLC)922968808 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3119190 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000182788 100 $a20110923d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTransnational discourses on class, gender, and cultural identity$b[electronic resource] /$fIrene Marques 210 $aWest Lafayette, Ind. $cPurdue University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (221 p.) 225 1 $aComparative cultural studies 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-55753-605-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 1. The bolder politics of agency -- pt. 2. The deeper politics of agency. 330 $a"This exploration of class, feminism, and cultural identity (including issues of race, nation, colonialism, and economic imperialism) focuses on the work of four writers: the Mozambican Mia Couto, the Portuguese Jose? Saramago, the Brazilian Clarice Lispector, and the South African J.M. Coetzee. In the first section, the author discusses the political aspects of Couto's collection of short stories Contos do nascer da terra (Stories of the Birth of the Land) and Saramago's novel O ano da morte de Ricardo Reis (The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis). The second section explores similar themes in Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K and Lispector's A hora da estrela (The Hour of the Star). Marques argues that these four writers are political in the sense that they bring to the forefront issues pertaining to the power of literature to represent, misrepresent, and debate matter related to different subaltern subjects: the postcolonial subject, the poor subject (the "poor other"), and the female subject. She also discusses the "ahuman other" in the context of the subjectivity of the natural world, the dead, and the unborn, and shows how these aspects are present in all the different societies addressed and point to the mystical dimension that permeates most societies. With regard to Couto's work, this "ahuman other" is approached mostly through a discussion of the holistic, animist values and epistemologies that inform and guide Mozambican traditional societies, while in further analyses the notion is approached via discussions on phenomenology, elementality, and divinity following the philosophies of Le?vinas and Irigaray and mystical consciousness in Zen Buddhism and the psychology of Jung"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aComparative cultural studies. 606 $aPolitical fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aOther (Philosophy) in literature 606 $aIdentity (Psychology) in literature 606 $aPostcolonialism in literature 606 $aLanguage and languages in literature 615 0$aPolitical fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aOther (Philosophy) in literature. 615 0$aIdentity (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aPostcolonialism in literature. 615 0$aLanguage and languages in literature. 676 $a809.3/93581 700 $aMarques$b Irene$f1969-$01514622 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790290703321 996 $aTransnational discourses on class, gender, and cultural identity$93749909 997 $aUNINA