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The Magellan Fallacy: Globalization and the Emergence of Asian and African Literature in Spanish
Adam Lifshey
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Description for The Magellan Fallacy: Globalization and the Emergence of Asian and African Literature in Spanish
Hardcover. The first and only study to date of the Spanish-language literature of both Southeast Asia and West Africa Num Pages: 323 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 590.
Winner of the 2015 A-Asia/ICAS Africa-Asia Book Prize, a global competition, for the best book in English, French, or Portuguese on any topic linking Asia and Africa.
The Magellan Fallacy argues that literature in Spanish from Asia and Africa, though virtually unknown, reimagines the supposed centers and peripheries of the modern world in fundamental ways. Through archival research and comparative readings, The Magellan Fallacy rethinks mainstream mappings of diverse cultures while advocating the creation of a new field of scholarship: global literature in Spanish. As the first attempt to analyze Asian and African literature in Spanish together, and doing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472118472
SKU
V9780472118472
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99-15
About Adam Lifshey
Adam Lifshey is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Program in Comparative Literature at Georgetown University, as well as the author of As Green as Paradise: A Novel, and Subversions of the American Century.
Reviews for The Magellan Fallacy: Globalization and the Emergence of Asian and African Literature in Spanish
“The book’s aim is as ambitious as it is timely: that of establishing a new field of global Hispanic studies emphases, one that bypasses the hidebound departmental binary of Peninsular/Latin American, that encompasses significant achievements of Hispanic literature coming out of Asia and Africa. What the author has accomplished is nothing short of a paradigm shift that will produce repercussions ... Read more