Cannibal democracy : race and representation in the literature of the Americas / / Zita Nunes
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| Autore: |
Nunes Zita
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| Titolo: |
Cannibal democracy : race and representation in the literature of the Americas / / Zita Nunes
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.896/07 |
| Soggetto topico: | American literature - African American authors - History and criticism |
| Brazilian literature - History and criticism | |
| Caribbean literature - History and criticism | |
| Metaphor | |
| Cannibalism in literature | |
| Race relations in literature | |
| Democracy in literature | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Race relations Historiography |
| Brazil Race relations Historiography | |
| Caribbean Area Race relations Historiography | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-200) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 work |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Cannibal democracy |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-5652-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910813630003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Critical American studies series.