Postcolonial Perspectives on the Cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
228 pages
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© 2001
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
Preface
Introduction: Locating the Object, Mapping the Field: the Place of the Cultures of Latin American and Lusophone Africa in Postcolonial Studies - Robin Fiddian
1. On Metropolitan Readings of Latin American Cultures: Ethical Questions of Postcolonial Critical Practice - Mark I. Millington
2. Ig/noble Barbarians: Revisiting Latin American Modernisms - Else Vieira
3. José Carlos Mariátegui: Culture and the Nation - Patricia D'Allemand
4. Doing Time in Peru: the Poetics of Multitemporality as Method for Cultural History - William Rowe
5. America, Americanism and the Third World in the Work of Leopoldo Zea - Robin Fiddian
6. Fernando Ortiz's Transculturation: the Postcolonial Intellectual and the Politics of Cultural Representation - Catherine Davies
7. Caribbean Masks: Frantz Fanon and Alejo Carpentier - Stephen Henighan
8. Colonial Crosswords: (In)voicing the Gap in Mia Couto - Maria Manuel Lisboa
Index
Introduction: Locating the Object, Mapping the Field: the Place of the Cultures of Latin American and Lusophone Africa in Postcolonial Studies - Robin Fiddian
1. On Metropolitan Readings of Latin American Cultures: Ethical Questions of Postcolonial Critical Practice - Mark I. Millington
2. Ig/noble Barbarians: Revisiting Latin American Modernisms - Else Vieira
3. José Carlos Mariátegui: Culture and the Nation - Patricia D'Allemand
4. Doing Time in Peru: the Poetics of Multitemporality as Method for Cultural History - William Rowe
5. America, Americanism and the Third World in the Work of Leopoldo Zea - Robin Fiddian
6. Fernando Ortiz's Transculturation: the Postcolonial Intellectual and the Politics of Cultural Representation - Catherine Davies
7. Caribbean Masks: Frantz Fanon and Alejo Carpentier - Stephen Henighan
8. Colonial Crosswords: (In)voicing the Gap in Mia Couto - Maria Manuel Lisboa
Index
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