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Cannibal democracy : race and representation in the literature of the Americas / / Zita Nunes



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Autore: Nunes Zita Visualizza persona
Titolo: Cannibal democracy : race and representation in the literature of the Americas / / Zita Nunes Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8166-5652-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910813630003321
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Serie: Critical American studies series.