Between Two Waters: Narratives of Transculturation in Latin America - Couverture souple

Spitta, Silvia D.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1585445290 ISBN 13 : 9781585445295

Editeur : Texas A & M University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Expanding upon existing studies of transculturation, Silvia Spitta shows how Latin American cultures radically transformed, displaced, and subverted Spanish and later European and U.S. cultural impositions. She theorizes transculturation as the complex process of adjustment and re-creation--cultural, literary, linguistic, and personal--that allows for new configurations to emerge from the clash of cultures and colonial and neocolonial appropriations. Spitta not only introduces the question of gender into the debate, but also brings together previously disconnected media: the chronicles of the New World, the writings of the extirpators of idolatries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the paintings of the Cuzco School, and contemporary U.S. Latino narratives. Between Two Waters rings English-language readers into the post-colonial debate at the heart of Latin American literary criticism.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Silvia Spitta is an associate professor of Spanish and comparative literature at Dartmouth College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Texas A & M University Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1585445290
• ISBN 13: 9781585445295
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 246
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• Personne responsable: non disponible