Orientalism and Identity in Latin America - Fashioning Self and Other from the (Post)colonial Margin

Informationen zum Autor Erik Camayd-Freixas is Professor of Hispanic Studies and Director of Graduate Studies at Florida International University. He is the author of several books and co-edited the seminal Primitivism and Identity in Latin America. Klappentext Building on the pioneering work of Edward Said in fresh and useful ways, contributors consider both historical contacts and literary influences in the formation of Latin American constructs of the "Orient" and the "Self" from colonial times to the present. In the process, they unveil wide-ranging manifestations of Orientalism. Zusammenfassung Building on the pioneering work of Edward Said in fresh and useful ways! contributors consider both historical contacts and literary influences in the formation of Latin American constructs of the "Orient" and the "Self" from colonial times to the present. In the process! they unveil wide-ranging manifestations of Orientalism.

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• Authors: CAMAYD FREIXAS ERIK EDT, Erik (EDT) Camayd-Freixas
• Assisted by: Erik Camayd-Freixas (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2013
• EAN: 9780816529537
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-2953-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography