Postcolonial perspectives on the cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa / edited with an introduction by Robin Fiddian.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fiddian, Robin W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin America--History--20th century.

Latin America.

Latin America--Civilization--20th century.

Africa, Portuguese-speaking--Civilization--20th century.

Africa, Portuguese-speaking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 218 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume surveys the range of texts, authors and topics from the literary and non-literary cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa, adopting a set of perspectives that are grounded in the discipline of postcolonial studies. Using comparative and contrastive methods, Postcolonial Perspectives reinterprets cultural landmarks and traditions of Latin America and Lusophone Africa.

Contents:

Title Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Locating the Object, Mapping the Field: the Place of the Cultures of Latin American and Lusophone Africa in Postcolonial Studies; 1. On Metropolitan Readings of Latin American Cultures: Ethical Questions of Postcolonial Critical Practice; 2. Ig/noble Barbarians: Revisiting Latin American Modernisms; 3. José Carlos Mariátegui: Culture and the Nation; 4. Doing Time in Peru: the Poetics of Multitemporality as Method for Cultural History; 5. America, Americanism and the Third World in the Work of Leopoldo Zea

6. Fernando Ortiz's Transculturation: the Postcolonial Intellectual and the Politics of Cultural Representation7. Caribbean Masks: Frantz Fanon and Alejo Carpentier; 8. Colonial Crosswords: (In)voicing the Gap in Mia Couto; Index

Notes:

Based on a symposium held in Oxford, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-78138-813-X

1-84631-385-6

OCLC:

437241526