Centers and Peripheries in Romance Language Literatures in the Americas and Africa

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69112-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 105, 624 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1184 g

Reihe: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature

What is center and periphery? How can centers and peripheries be recognized by their ontological and axiological features? How does the axiological saturation of a literary field condition aesthetics? How did these factors transform center-periphery relationships to the former metropolises of Romance literatures of the Americas and Africa? What are the consequences of various deperipheralization contexts and processes for poetics? Using theoretical sections and case studies, this book surveys and investigates the limits of globalization. Through explorations of the intercultural dynamics, the aesthetic contributions of former peripheries are examined in terms of the transformative nature of peripheries on centralities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kyloušek, Petr

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Petr Kyloušek

1 What Is the Center and What Is the Periphery?

Petr Kyloušek

Part 1 Processes of Deperipheralization

2 What Does Deperipheralization Refer to?

Petr Kyloušek

3 American Francophone Literature: Quebec, Martinique, Haiti

Petr Kyloušek

4 The Deperipheralization of Spanish Latin America

Daniel Vázquez Touriño

5 Surviving the Borderlands: Living Sin Fronteras, Becoming a Crossroads: The Deperipheralization of the Chicano/a Cultural/Literary Space

Markéta Riebová

6 The Long Journey of Brazilian Literature toward Autonomy: The 19th Century

Eva Batlicková

7 The Search for the Singularity of Brazilian Literature in the 20th Century

Zuzana Burianová

8 The Shared History of Maghreb Countries

Míla Janišová

9 French Africa: A Colonial Victory or a Moral One?

Vojtech Šarše

10 Sub-Saharan African Literature in French from the 1980s to the Present: The Symbolic Year 1980 as an Aesthetic and Thematic Turn

Petr Vurm

11 Angola and Mozambique

Silvie Špánková

Part 2 Centralities

Introduction to Part 2: Centralities

Petr Kyloušek

12 Paris—Centrality as an Initiator of Deperipheralization

Petr Dytrt,Eva Voldrichová Beránková

13 Innovation and Networks in the Spanish Novel of the 1960s: Juan Goytisolo

José Luis Bellón Aguilera

14 From Migrant Literature to Contemporary Literature of Transcultural Italy: Forms and Effects of a Strategic Marginality

Chiara Mengozzi

Part 3 Case Studies

Introduction to Part 3: Case Studies

Petr Kyloušek

15 “Lâche pas la patate”: French Language Cultures in Louisiana

Daniel Paul Sampey

16 The Creolization of Patrick Chamoiseau (Martinique) and René Depestre (Haiti): Language and Center-Periphery Relationship

Milena Fucíková

17 Abdelkébir Khatibi: The Labyrinth of Language

Míla Janišová

18 Biculturation, Bilingualism and Orality in the Deperipheralization of Cuban-American Literature

Marta Hudousková

19 The Caribbean Diaspora and the Construction of Thirdspace in Josefina Báez’s Performative Text Levente No. Yolayorkdominicanyork

Martina Barinová

20 Gloria Anzaldúa: Opening up Space at the Border

Markéta Riebová

21 Rui Knopfli, a Nomad between Babylon and Sion

Silvie Špánková

22 The Literary Production of Minority Groups in Contemporary Brazilian Literature

Zuzana Burianová

23 Finding Dialogue through Translation: Literature by Brazilian Indigenous Authors

Eva Batlicková, Caroline Ivanski Langer

24 From the Desert to the Indigenous Utopia, from the Literary Periphery to the Center

The Adventures of China Iron as a Case of the Internationalization of Peripheral Literatures

Eva Lalkovicová

25 Conclusion

Petr Kyloušek

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Petr Kyloušek (1952), Masaryk University, Czech Republic, is a professor of Romance literatures. He has published monographs and articles, mainly on French and Quebec literatures, including History of French-Canadian and Quebec Literature (2005).