Anti-Empire: Decolonial Interventions in Lusophone Literatures / Silva, Daniel F.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Silva, Daniel F., author.

Series:

Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone cultures ; 18

Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literary studies: general.

Literary theory.

Literary studies: post-colonial literature.

Cultural studies.

European history.

National liberation & independence, post-colonialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages)

Other Title:

Liverpool University Press Opening the Future.

Place of Publication:

4 Cambridge Street, Liverpool L69 7ZU Liverpool University Press 2018

Summary:

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Anti-Empire explores how different writers across Lusophone spaces have engaged with imperial and colonial power at its various levels of domination, while imagining alternatives to dominant discourses pertaining to race, ethnicity, culture, gender, sexuality, and class. Guided by a theoretically eclectic approach ranging from Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, Postcolonial Theory, Queer Theory, and Critical Race Studies, Empire is explored as a spectrum of contemporary global power inaugurated by European expansion and propagated in the postcolonial present through economic, cultural, and political forces. Through the texts analysed, Anti-Empire offers in-depth interrogations of contemporary power in terms of racial politics, gender performance, socio-economic divisions, political structures, and the intersections of these facets of domination and hegemony. By way... Publisher description

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

9781786949370

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access