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Imagining the Postcolonial: Discipline, Poetics, Practice in Latin American and Francophone Discourse - Softcover

Hanneken, Jaime

 
9781438456225: Imagining the Postcolonial: Discipline, Poetics, Practice in Latin American and Francophone Discourse
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1438456220 ISBN 13: 9781438456225
Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2016

Synopsis

A comparative study of Latin American and francophone postcoloniality.

Imagining the Postcolonial is the first book dedicated to comparative analysis of Latin American and francophone postcolonial identity. Jaime Hanneken examines the disciplinary, theoretical, and political stakes involved in postcolonial identification in non-anglophone cultural spheres through readings of José Lezama Lima and Édouard Glissant’s poetics of place, the symbolic value of Paris in modernista writing and in Congolese Sociétés des Ambianceurs et Personnes Élégantes (sape) rituals, and the scandals surrounding Rigoberta Menchú and Yambo Ouologuem. Hanneken argues that reorienting comparative critique to the priority of the object of study can transform rather than replicate existing conceptual formats of postcoloniality.

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About the Author

Jaime Hanneken is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of Minnesota.

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Publisher
State University of New York Press
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1438456220
ISBN 13 
9781438456225
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
220