ISBN:
0816648417
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9780816648412
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9780816648405
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0816648409
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9780816656523
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xx, 218 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Critical American studies series
Series Statement:
Critical American Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Cannibal Democracy : Race and Representation in the Literature of the Americas
DDC:
305.896/07
Keywords:
American literature African American authors
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History and criticism
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Race relations in literature
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Brazilian literature History and criticism
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Caribbean literature History and criticism
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Metaphor
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Cannibalism in literature
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Democracy in literature
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American literature ; African American authors ; History and criticism
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Brazilian literature ; History and criticism
;
Cannibalism in literature
;
Caribbean literature ; History and criticism
;
Democracy in literature
;
Metaphor
;
Race relations in literature
;
Electronic books
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Brazil ; Race relations ; Historiography
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Caribbean Area ; Race relations ; Historiography
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United States ; Race relations ; Historiography
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United States Race relations
;
Historiography
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Brazil Race relations
;
Historiography
;
Caribbean Area Race relations
;
Historiography
Abstract:
Zita Nunes argues that the prevailing narratives of identity formation throughout the Americas share a dependence on metaphors of incorporation and, often, of cannibalism. From the position of the incorporating body, the construction of a national and racial identity through a process of assimilation presupposes a remainder, a residue. Nunes addresses works by writers and artists who explore what is left behind in the formation of national identities and speak to the limits of the contemporary discourse of democracy. Cannibal Democracy tracks its central metaphor's circulation through the work
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; ONE: United by Anthropophagism; TWO: Bringing in the Dead: Nostalgia and the Refusal of Loss in Gilberto Freyre's: Casa Grande e Senzala; THREE: The Foreigner and the Remainder; FOUR: The New Negro and the Turn to South America; FIVE: The Remainder Is a Reminder: Cannibalizing the Remains of the Past; EPILOGUE; NOTES; INDEX
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-200) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
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