Cosmopolitan Strangers In Us Latinx Literature And Culture

Author : Esther Álvarez-López,Andrea Fernández-García
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000837056

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Cosmopolitan Strangers in US Latinx Literature and Culture by Esther Álvarez-López,Andrea Fernández-García Pdf

This book presents a study of the figure of the stranger in US Latinx literary and cultural forms, ranging from contemporary novels through essays to film and transborder art activism. The focus on this abject figure is twofold: first, to explore its potential to expose the processes of othering to which Latinxs are subjected; and, second, to foreground its epistemic response to neocolonial structures and beliefs. Thus, this book draws on relevant sociological literature on the stranger to unveil the political and social processes behind the recognition of Latinxs as ‘out of place.’ On the other hand, and most importantly, this volume follows the path of neo-cosmopolitan approaches to bring to the fore processes of interrelatedness, interaction, and conviviality that run counter to criminalizing discourses around Latinxs. Through an engagement with these theoretical tenets, the goal of this book is to showcase the role of the Latinx stranger as a cosmopolitan mediator that transforms walls into bridges.

Author : Paula Barba Guerrero,Mónica Fernández Jiménez
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031301797

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American Borders by Paula Barba Guerrero,Mónica Fernández Jiménez Pdf

American Borders: Inclusion and Exclusion in US Culture provides an overview of American culture produced in a range of contexts, from the founding of the nation to the age of globalization and neoliberalism, in order to understand the diverse literary landscapes of the United States from a twenty-first century perspective. The authors confront American exceptionalism, discourses on freedom and democracy, and US foundational narratives by reassessing the literary canon and exploring ethnic literature, culture, and film with a focus on identity and exclusion. Their contributions envision different manifestations of conviviality and estrangement and deconstruct neoliberal slogans, analyzing hospitable inclusion in relation to national history and ideologies. By looking at representations of foreignness and conditional belonging in literature and film from different ethnic traditions, the volume fleshes out a new border dialectic that conveys the heterogeneity of American boundaries beyond the opposition inside/outside.

Author : Maria Montt Strabucchi
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781835535653

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Representations of China in Latin American Literature (1987-2016) by Maria Montt Strabucchi Pdf

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM. Representations of China in Latin American Literature (1987-2016) analyses contemporary Latin American novels in which China is the main theme. Using ‘China’ as a multidimensional term, it explores how the novels both highlight and undermine assumptions about China that have shaped Latin America’s understanding of ‘China’ and shows ‘China’ to be a kind of literary/imaginary ‘third’ term which reframes Latin American discourses of alterity. On one level, it argues that these texts play with the way that ‘China’ stands in as a wandering signifier and as a metonym for Asia, a gesture that essentialises it as an unchanging other. On another level, it argues that the novels’ employment of ‘China’ resists essentialist constructions of identity. ‘China’ is thus shown to be serving as a concept which allows for criticism of the construction of fetishized otherness and of the exclusion inherent in essentialist discourses of identity. The book presents and analyses the depiction of an imaginary of China which is arguably performative, but which discloses the tropes and themes which may be both established and subverted, in the novels. Chapter One examines the way in which ‘China’ is represented and constructed in Latin American novels where this country is a setting for their stories. The novels studied in Chapter Two are linked to the presence of Chinese communities in Latin America. The final chapter examines novels whose main theme is travel to contemporary China. Ultimately, in the novels studied in this book ‘China’ serves as a concept through which essentialist notions of identity are critiqued.

Author : Jacqueline Loss
Publisher : New Directions in Latino Ameri
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173019136148

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Cosmopolitanisms and Latin America by Jacqueline Loss Pdf

"Jacqueline Loss explores the vicissitudes of place - of home, exile, and migration - to develop a compelling interpretation that shows both the limits and possibilities of cosmopolitan criticism and writing. She probes an archive of cosmopolitan thought within and about Latin American culture and reinvests the concept with critical force for dealing with contemporary anxieties over the production and circulation of art and theory. Her readings of such authors as Reinaldo Arenas and Diamela Eltit suggest that their negotiations of the complexity of place are crucial to their works' national and international viability, illustrating the centrality of cosmopolitanism to Latin American cultural production as well as to Latin Americanism as a discipline."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Annik Bilodeau
Publisher : ISSN
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1773851594

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Belonging Beyond Borders by Annik Bilodeau Pdf

Belonging Beyond Borders maps the evolution of cosmopolitanism in Spanish American narrative literature through a generational lens. Drawing on a new theoretical framework that blends intellectual studies and literary history with integrated approaches to Spanish American narrative, this book traces the evolution from aesthetic cosmopolitanism through anti-colonial nationalism to modern political cosmopolitanism. Cosmopolitanism in Latin America has historically been associated with colonialism. In the mid-twentieth-century, authors who presented cosmopolitan narratives were harshly criticized by their nationalist peers. However, with the intensification of cultural globalization Spanish American authors have redefined cosmopolitanism, rejecting a worldview that relies on the creation of an other for the definition of the self. Instead, this new generation has both embraced and challenged global citizenship, redefining concepts to address human rights, identity, migration, belonging, and more. Taking the work of Elena Poniatowka, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Jorge Volpi as examples, this book presents innovative scholarship across literary traditions. It shows how Spanish-American authors offer nuanced understandings of national and global affiliations, and identities and untangles the strings of cosmopolitan thought and activism from those of nationalist criticism.

Author : Camilla Fojas
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1557533822

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Cosmopolitanism in the Americas by Camilla Fojas Pdf

In an analysis based in a sophisticated use of critical theory, Fojas (Latin American and Latino studies, DePaul U., Chicago) engages a selection of modernist Latin American writers of the early 20th century as examples of cosmopolitanism, a notion here interpreted as a worldly modernity. The writings of Enrique Gomez Carrillo, Aurelia Castillo de Gonzalez (who wrote about the Chicago World's Fair), Jose Enrique Rodo, and the Venezuelan journal Cosmopolis are discussed in the context of other writers in Latin America, Europe, and the United States, and in terms of their expression of determinedly non-mainstream values, lifestyles, and ideas. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Annik Bilodeau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Cosmopolitanism in literature
ISBN : 1773851624

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Belonging Beyond Borders by Annik Bilodeau Pdf

Author : Esperanca Bielsa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317368328

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Cosmopolitanism and Translation by Esperanca Bielsa Pdf

Social theories of the new cosmopolitanism have called attention to the central importance of translation, in areas such as global democracy, human rights and social movements, but translation studies has not engaged systematically with theories of cosmopolitanism. In Cosmopolitanism and Translation, Esperança Bielsa does just that by focussing on the lived experience of the cosmopolitan stranger, whether a traveller, migrant, refugee or homecomer. With reference to world literature, social theory and foreign news, she argues that this key figure of modernity has a central relevance in the cosmopolitanism debate. In nine chapters organised into four thematic sections, this book examines: theories and insights on "new cosmopolitanism" methodological cosmopolitanism translation as the experience of the foreign the notion of cosmopolitanism as openness to others living in translation and the question of the stranger. With detailed case studies centred on Bolaño, Adorno and Terzani and their work, Cosmopolitanism and Translation places translation at the heart of cosmopolitan theory and makes an essential contribution for students and researchers of both translation studies and social theory.

Author : Esperanca Bielsa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317368335

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Cosmopolitanism and Translation by Esperanca Bielsa Pdf

Social theories of the new cosmopolitanism have called attention to the central importance of translation, in areas such as global democracy, human rights and social movements, but translation studies has not engaged systematically with theories of cosmopolitanism. In Cosmopolitanism and Translation, Esperança Bielsa does just that by focussing on the lived experience of the cosmopolitan stranger, whether a traveller, migrant, refugee or homecomer. With reference to world literature, social theory and foreign news, she argues that this key figure of modernity has a central relevance in the cosmopolitanism debate. In nine chapters organised into four thematic sections, this book examines: theories and insights on "new cosmopolitanism" methodological cosmopolitanism translation as the experience of the foreign the notion of cosmopolitanism as openness to others living in translation and the question of the stranger. With detailed case studies centred on Bolaño, Adorno and Terzani and their work, Cosmopolitanism and Translation places translation at the heart of cosmopolitan theory and makes an essential contribution for students and researchers of both translation studies and social theory.

Author : Kirsten Silva Gruesz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691050973

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Ambassadors of Culture by Kirsten Silva Gruesz Pdf

This polished literary history argues forcefully that Latinos are not newcomers in the United States by documenting a vast network of Spanish-language cultural activity in the nineteenth century. Juxtaposing poems and essays by both powerful and peripheral writers, Kirsten Silva Gruesz proposes a major revision of the nineteenth-century U.S. canon and its historical contexts. Drawing on previously unpublished archival materials and building on an innovative interpretation of poetry's cultural role, Ambassadors of Culture brings together scattered writings from the borderlands of California and the Southwest as well as the cosmopolitan exile centers of New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco. It reads these productions in light of broader patterns of relations between the U.S. and Latin America, moving from the fraternal rhetoric of the Monroe Doctrine through the expansionist crisis of 1848 to the proto-imperialist 1880s. It shows how ''ambassadors of culture'' such as Whitman, Longfellow, and Bryant propagated ideas about Latin America and Latinos through their translations, travel writings, and poems. In addition to these well-known figures and their counterparts in the work of nation-building in Cuba, Mexico, and Central and South America, this book also introduces unremembered women writers and local poets writing in both Spanish and English. In telling the almost forgotten early history of travels and translations between U.S. and Latin American writers, Gruesz shows that Anglo and Latino traditions in the New World were, from the beginning, deeply intertwined and mutually necessary.

Author : Elizabeth Jackson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004527126

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Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities in Literature by Elizabeth Jackson Pdf

This book investigates literary representations and self-representations of people with cosmopolitan identities arising from mobile global childhoods which transcend categories of migrancy and diaspora.

Author : Theo D'haen,David Damrosch,Djelal Kadir
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000625967

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The Routledge Companion to World Literature by Theo D'haen,David Damrosch,Djelal Kadir Pdf

This fully updated new edition of The Routledge Companion to World Literature contains ten brand new chapters on topics such as premodern world literature, migration studies, world history, artificial intelligence, global Englishes, remediation, crime fiction, Lusophone literature, Middle Eastern literature, and oceanic studies. Separated into four key sections, the volume covers: the history of world literature through significant writers and theorists from Goethe to Said, Casanova and Moretti the disciplinary relationship of world literature to areas such as philology, translation, globalization, and diaspora studies theoretical issues in world literature, including gender, politics, and ethics; and a global perspective on the politics of world literature Comprehensive yet accessible, this book is ideal as an introduction to world literature or for those looking to extend their knowledge of this essential field.

Author : Russ Castronovo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199355891

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The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Russ Castronovo Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature will offer a cutting-edge assessment of the period's literature, offering readers practical insights and proactive strategies for exploring novels, poems, and other literary creations.

Author : John C. Havard
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817319779

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Hispanicism and Early US Literature by John C. Havard Pdf

Havard terms the discourse emerging from these reflections "Hispanicism." This discourse was used to portray the dominant viewpoint of classical liberalism that propounded an American exceptionalism premised on the idea that Hispanophone peoples were comparatively lacking the capacity for self-determination, hence rationalizing imperialism. On the conservative side were warnings against progress through conquest. Havard delves into selected works of early national and antebellum literature on Spain and Spanish America to illuminate US national identity. Poetry and novels by Joel Barlow, James Fenimore Cooper, and Herman Melville are mined to further his arguments regarding identity, liberalism, and conservatism. Understudied authors Mary Peabody Mann and José Antonio Saco are held up to contrast American and Cuban views on Hispanicism and Cuban annexation as well as to develop the focus on nationality and ideology via differences in views on liberalism.

Author : Wilfried Raussert,Giselle Liza Anatol,Sebastian Thies,Sarah Corona Berkin,José Carlos Lozano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351064682

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The Routledge Handbook to the Culture and Media of the Americas by Wilfried Raussert,Giselle Liza Anatol,Sebastian Thies,Sarah Corona Berkin,José Carlos Lozano Pdf

Exploring the culture and media of the Americas, this handbook places particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences and focuses on the transnational or hemispheric dimensions of cultural flows and geocultural imaginaries that shape the literature, arts, media and other cultural expressions in the Americas. The Routledge Handbook to the Culture and Media of the Americas charts the pervasive, asymmetrical flows of cultural products and capital and their importance in the development of the Americas. The volume offers a comprehensive understanding of how inter-American communication is constituted, framed and structured, and covers the artistic and political dimensions that have shaped literature, art and popular culture in the region. Forty-six chapters cover a range of inter-American key concepts and dynamics, divided into two parts: Literature and Music deals with inter-American entanglements of artistic expressions in the Western Hemisphere, including music, dance, literary genres and developments. Media and Visual Cultures explores the inter-American dimension of media production in the hemisphere, including cinema and television, photography and art, journalism, radio, digital culture and issues such as freedom of expression and intellectual property. This multidisciplinary approach will be of interest to a broad array of academic scholars and students in history, sociology, political science; and cultural, postcolonial, gender, literary, globalization and media studies.