Negotiating Difference in the Hispanic World: From Conquest to Globalisation
Eleni Kefala
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Paperback. Negotiating Difference in the Hispanic World invites readers 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. Editor(s): Kefala, Eleni. Series: Bulletin of Latin American Research Book Series. Num Pages: 212 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 229 x 12. Weight in Grams: 312.
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.
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. ... Read more
- 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
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
Series
Bulletin of Latin American Research Book Series
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444339079
SKU
V9781444339079
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99-48
About Eleni Kefala
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 ... Read more
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