The Magellan fallacy : globalization and the emergence of Asian and African literature in Spanish / Adam Lifshey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lifshey, Adam.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish literature--Asian authors--History and criticism.

Spanish literature.

Spanish literature--African authors--History and criticism.

Southeast Asian literature (Spanish)--History and criticism.

Southeast Asian literature (Spanish).

African literature (Spanish)--History and criticism.

African literature (Spanish).

Literature and globalization.

Authors, African.

Physical Description:

x, 323 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2012]

Summary:

The Magellan Fallacy argues that literature in Spanish from Asia and Africa, though virtually unknown, reimagines the supposed centers and peripheries of the modern world in fundamental ways. Through archival research and comparative readings, The Magellan Fallacy rethinks mainstream mappings of diverse cultures while advocating the creation of a new field of scholarship: global literature in Spanish. As the first attempt to analyze Asian and African literature in Spanish together, and doing so while ranging over all continents, The Magellan Fallacy crosses geopolitical and cultural borders without end. The implications of the book, therefore, extend far beyond the lands formerly ruled by the Spanish empire. The Magellan Fallacy shows that all theories of globalization, including those focused on the Americas and Europe, must be able to account for the varied significances of hispanophone Asia and Africa as well.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Novelizations of Asia: Pedro Paterno's Nínay (1885) 25

Chapter 2 The Imperial Shift: José Rizal's El filibusterismo (1891) and Pedro Paterno's Aurora social (1910-11) 70

Chapter 3 Globalized Isolations: Felix Gerardo's Justicia social y otros cuentos 193?-41) 112

Chapter 4 The Turn to Africa: Daniel Jones Mathama's Una lanza par el Boabí (1962) 154

Chapter 5 Beginnings at the End: María Nsue Angüe's Ekomo (1985) and Juan Balboa Boneke's El reenaientro: el retomo del exiliado (1985) 199

Chapter 6 The Passages Ahead 242.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780472118472

0472118471

9780472028665

0472028669

OCLC:

793221906