Shakespearean Cultures - Latin America Challenges of Mimesis in Non Hegemonic Circumstances

Informationen zum Autor João Cezar de Castro Rocha is Full Professor of comparative literature at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. He was the President of the Brazilian Association of Comparative Literature from 2016 to 2017 and is the author of eleven books. He is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Klappentext In Shakespearean Cultures , René Girard's ideas on violence and the sacred inform an innovative analysis of contemporary Latin America. Castro Rocha proposes a new theoretical framework based upon the "poetics of emulation" and offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding the asymmetries of the modern world. Shakespearean cultures are those whose self-perception originates in the gaze of a hegemonic Other. The framework developed in this book yields thought-provoking readings of canonical authors such as William Shakespeare, Gustave Flaubert, and Joseph Conrad. At the same time, it favors the insertion of Latin American authors into the comparative scope of world literature, and stages an unprecedented dialogue among European, North American, and Latin American readers of René Girard's work. Zusammenfassung At the same time, it favors the insertion of Latin American authors into the comparative scope of world literature, and stages an unprecedented dialogue among European, North American, and Latin American readers of René Girard’s work.

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• Authors: Joao Cezar De Castro Rocha, João Cezar de Castro Rocha, Jopo Cezar/ Thomson-deveaux De Castro Rocha, Joao Cezar De Castro Rocha
• Assisted by: Flora Thomson-DeVeaux (Translation)
• Publisher: Michigan state university pres
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9781611863130
• ISBN: 978-1-61186-313-0
• No. of pages: 370
• Series: Studies in Violence, Mimesis,; Studies in Violence, Mimesis,; Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies