Broschiertes Buch

Negotiating Difference in the Hispanic World

From Conquest to Globalisation

Herausgeber: Kefala, Eleni

Beschreibung

Negotiating Difference in the Hispanic World invites us to rethink the complex dialogical process of identity formation and self-definition in Latin America from the Conquest to the present day. Essays from an international scholarship provide an important theoretical contribution to debates on identity. * Explores the various instances of cultural encounters in Latin America from the Conquest to the present day * This volume is singularly wide in its breadth, covering sixteenth-century Aztec heraldry and Sahagún's Universal History of the Things of New Spain, to eighteenth-century notions of culture, nineteenth-century theatre, turn-of-the-century degeneration theory, and contemporary literature and culture. * The book's interdisciplinary approach combines literary and cultural studies, cultural history, art history, translation studies and cultural anthropology * A broad geographical scope covers Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Spain, Cuba and the United States. * The book makes an important theoretical contribution to the debates on identity through its innovative approaches, maintaining a fine balance between theoretical argument and empirical study * The essays are written by specialists of different nationalities based in the United Kingdom, the United States, Norway and Argentina, providing an international cutting-edge scholarship

Autor

Eleni Kefala is a lecturer in Latin American literature and culture at the University of St Andrews. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and subsequently held a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Peripheral (Post) Modernity: The Syncretist Aesthetics of Borges, Piglia, Kalokyris and Kyriakidis (2007), and of numerous articles on Latin American and comparative literature and culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9781444339079
• ISBN-10: 1444339079
• Artikelnr.: 33134479

Rezensionen

'A remarkably broad-ranging collection of essays coveringsome five-hundred years of Latin American cultural history. Arguingthat difference is necessarily constitutive of identity, the bookprovides a series of reflections on a variety of texts and topicsrelated to identity formation via readings that transcendconventional perceptions resting on binary distinctions as well asthose based on over-simplified notions of hybridity. This more openapproach offers fresh and compelling ways of understanding LatinAmerican modernity, with individual contributions that arefascinatingly revealing and rigorously argued.'
--Philip Swanson, University of Sheffield, UK

'Kefala's volume provides the reader with a compellingcollection of ten thought-provoking essays that, together with herintroductory essay, offer a novel and interdisciplinaryunderstanding of the aesthetic, ideological and culturalnegotiations that have reconfigured the formation of a range ofHispanic identities in the Americas over the last five centuries.What emerges from Negotiating Difference is a strong sensethat we need to rethink how difference shapes identity in aproblematised postcolonial world that in itself deservesrethinking.'
--Professor Will Fowler, University of St Andrews