Silviano Santiago

The Space In-Between

Essays on Latin American Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"These essays constitute a refreshing approach to cultural and literary studies by the most courageous and forward-thinking critic in Brazil. Silviano Santiago's breadth of knowledge and critical acumen stem from the erudition and perspicacity of a highly intelligent mind."--Nelson H. Vieira, Brown University

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 144mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780822327493
• ISBN-10: 082232749X
• Artikelnr.: 22302267

Autorenporträt

Martín Hopenhayn is Social Development Researcher for the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. While he is the author of numerous books in Spanish, this is the first English language collection of his writing. Cynthia Margarita Tompkins is Associate Professor of Spanish at Arizona State University. Elizabeth Rosa Horan is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University. Silviano Santiago is Professor of Brazilian Literature at the Universidade Federal Fluminense in Niterói. He is a novelist, poet, translator, and theorist whose books include the novel Stella Manhattan, also published by Duke University Press. Ana Lúcia Gazzola is President and Professor of English, Romance, and Comparative Literature at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Silviano Santiago, a Voice In-Between / Ana Lúcia Gazzola and
Wander Melo Miranda
1. Why and For What Purpose Does the European Travel?
2. Latin American Discourse: The Space In-Between
3. Eça, Author of Madame Bovary
4. Universality in Spite of Dependency
5. The Rhetoric of Verisimilitude
6. Worth Its Weight: Brazilian Modernist Fiction
7. The Permanence of the Discourse of Tradition in Modernism