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Unforeseeable Americas : questioning cultural hybridity in the Americas /

Unforeseeable Americas : questioning cultural hybridity in the Americas / Questioning cultural hybridity in the Americas edited by Rita De Grandis and Zilà Bernd. - 1 online resource (xxix, 310 pages) - Critical studies ; vol. 13 . - Critical Studies 13. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Encounters of a Heterogeneous Kind: Hybridity in Cultural Theory / National Reconciliation and Colonial Resistance: The Notion of Hybridity in José Martí / Mestizaje: “I understand the reality, I just do not like the word:” Perspectives on an Option / On Border Artists and Transculturation: The Politics of Postmodern Performances and Latin America / Shifting Paradigms: From Transculturation to Hybridity: A Theoretical Critique / A Non-Dialectic Heterogeneity: The Subject and Discourse of Urban Migration in Modern Peru / Dialogism and Historical Bakhtinian Poetics from the Perspective of Cultural Heterogeneity and Narrative Transculturation in Latin America / The Crossing of American Languages in Sainte dérive des cochons / Memory’s Children and Redressing History: Critical Reflections on Obasan by Joy Kogawa—The Case of a Northern ‘Hybrid’ Novel / Poison: Asians in the Fait Divers of Some Montreal Newspapers / Pursuing Hybridity: From the Linguistic to the Symbolic / Hybrid Religions in Highland Guatemala: Modernity, Tradition and Culture / “Hybrid Cultures:” Modern Experience and “Institution Kunst” / Territorial Signs as Ready-Mades / Metamorphosis as Fantasy of the Hybrid. Postmodern Horror and the Destiny of the Human Body in The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986) / Contributors / Sabine Mabardi -- Amaryll Chanady -- Catherine Poupeney-Hart -- Román de la Campa -- Abril Trigo -- Antonio Cornejo Polar -- Françoise Pérus -- Jean Jonassaint -- Jerry Zaslove -- Sylvie Dion -- Rita De Grandis -- Christopher Chiappari -- Silvia L. López -- Raúl Antelo -- Vicente Sánchez-Biosca1 -- Rita de Grandis and Zilà Bernd.

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9789004333802

10.1163/9789004333802 DOI


1900-1999


Latin American literature--History and criticism.
Civilization.
Cultural fusion.
Cultural pluralism in literature.
Latin American literature.
Literature and society.
Multiculturalism in literature.


Latin America--Civilization--20th century.
Latin America.


Criticism, interpretation, etc.

B809.3.A1 / C74 2000

306.4098