Cannibal democracy : race and representation in the literature of the Americas /
"Zita Nunes argues that the prevailing narratives of identity formation throughout the Americas share a dependence on metaphors of incorporation and, often, of cannibalism. The construction of a national and racial identity through a process of assimilation, Nunes asserts, presupposes a remaind...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2008]
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Colección: | Critical American studies series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- United by anthropophagism
- Bringing in the dead : nostalgia and the refusal of loss in Gilberto Freyre's Casa Grande e Senzala
- The foreigner and the remainder
- The new Negro and the turn to South America
- The remainder is a reminder : cannibalizing the remains of the past.