Negotiating Difference in the Hispanic World

From Conquest to Globalisation
Herausgeber: Kefala, Eleni

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors.

Introduction (Eleni Kefala).

Part I: Found in Translation

1. Translating the Nahuas: Fray Bernardino de Sahagún'sParallel Texts in the Construction of Universal History of theThings of New Spain (Victoria Ríos Castaño).

2. Genealogies and Analogies of 'Culture' in the History ofCultural Translation - on Boturini's Translation of Tlaloc and Vicoin Idea of a New General History of Northern America (JohnØdemark).

3. The 'Acculturation' of the Translating Language: GregoryRabassa and Gabriel García Márquez's Chronicle of a DeathForetold (Anna Fochi).

Part II: Appropriations and the Rhetoric of Self-Definition

4. Claiming Ancestry and Lordship: Heraldic Language and IndigenousIdentity in Post-Conquest Mexico (Mónica DomínguezTorres).

5. The Role of Degeneration Theory in Spanish American PublicDiscourse at the Fin de Siècle: Raza Latina and Immigration inChile and Argentina (Michela Coletta).

6. (Mis)appropriating Europe: the Argentine Gaze in RicardoPiglia's Artificial Respiration (Emilse Hidalgo).

Part III: Liminality and the Politics of Identity

7. Transatlantic Crossings: Don Álvaro as a Threshold(Christina Karageorgou-Bastea).

8. Transatlantic Deficits; or, Alberto Vilar at the Royal OperaHouse (Roberto Ignacio Díaz).

9. A European Enclave in an Alien Continent? Enduring Fictions ofEuropean Civilisation and Indigenous Barbarism in Argentina Today(Leslie Ray).

10. McOndo, Magical Neoliberalism and Latin American Identity (RoryO'Bryen).

Index.

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