Imagining the postcolonial : discipline, poetics, practice in Latin American and Francophone discourse / Jaime Hanneken.

Author/creator Hanneken, Jaime, 1978- author.
Format Book
PublicationAlbany : SUNY Press, [2015]
Descriptionvi, 214 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Postcolonialism in literature.
Comparative literature.
Latin America--In literature.
French-speaking countries--In literature.

Contents Introduction: Latin Americanism, Francophone studies, and identity thinking -- Double articulation and wishful thinking -- José Lezama Lima and the gnosis of American expression -- Édouard Glissant's archipelic thought and second nature -- Excursus: poetics and place from autochthony to globality -- Mikilistes and Modernistas in Paris: consuming modernity's capital -- Minor truths: Menchú and Ouologuem in the multicultural metropolis -- Afterword: Commitment to the negative.
Abstract "Imagining the Postcolonial is the first book dedicated to comparative analysis of Latin American and francophone postcolonial identity. Jaime Hanneken examines the disciplinary, theoretical, and political stakes involved in postcolonial identification in non-anglophone cultural spheres through readings of José Lezama Lima and Édouard Glissant's poetics of place, the symbolic value of Paris in modernista writing and in Congolese Sociétés des Ambianceurs et Personnes Élégantes (sape) rituals, and the scandals surrounding Rigoberta Menchú and Yambo Ouologuem. Hanneken argues that reorienting comparative critique to the priority of the object of study can transform rather than replicate existing conceptual formats of postcoloniality." -- Publisher's description
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2014023235
ISBN9781438456218 hardcover alkaline paper
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