Negotiating Difference in the Hispanic World: From Conquest to Globalisation: 4 (Bulletin of Latin American Research Book Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1444339079 ISBN 13: 9781444339079

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

Synopsis

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

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About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

Individual and collective concepts of identity are developed through negotiations of difference. These negotiations are reliant on the intensity and length of the encounter with ‘the other’, and are heightened by socio-political and cultural conjunctures such as colonialism and globalisation.

This edited collection invites us to explore the different instances of cultural encounters in Latin America from the Conquest to the present day. It resituates Hispanic culture within the wider debate on identity, and investigates the intricate mechanisms whereby the latter is being moulded and remoulded in the last five hundred years. Its focal point is difference not as a topological sign of alterity, nor simply as an essential component of the Self, but as the mechanism whereby the idea of the Self is negotiated, uttered and performed.

The volume brings together discussions on identity from a broad range of international specialists in the fields of literary and cultural studies, cultural history, art history, translation studies and cultural anthropology. They make important theoretical contributions to current debates, maintaining a fine balance between theoretical argument and empirical study.

This edited collection invites us to explore the different instances of cultural encounters in Latin America from the Conquest to the present day. It resituates Hispanic culture within the wider debate on identity, and investigates the intricate mechanisms whereby the latter is being moulded and remoulded in the last five hundred years. Its focal point is difference not as a topological sign of alterity, nor simply as an essential component of the Self, but as the mechanism whereby the idea of the Self is negotiated, uttered and performed.

The volume brings together discussions on identity from a broad range of international specialists in the fields of literary and cultural studies, cultural history, art history, translation studies and cultural anthropology. They make important theoretical contributions to current debates, maintaining a fine balance between theoretical argument and empirical study.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1444339079
• ISBN 13: 9781444339079
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212
• Editor: Kefala Eleni