Poetics of the Americas : race, founding, and textuality
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Poetics of the Americas : race, founding, and textuality
（Horizons in theory and American culture）
Louisiana State University Press, c1997
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- : pbk
Available at 10 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-202) and index
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: hbk ISBN 9780807121429
Description
From Sigmund Freud to Zora Neale Hurston, from Columbus to the Holocaust, from Moses to Monty Pyton, the topics covered in this collection seek to create a stimulating background for a dialogue on the role of poetics in the Americas.
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: pbk ISBN 9780807121818
Description
Emanating from a colloquium held at Louisiana State University entitled ""Intertextuality and civilisation in the Americas,"" this volume features some of the best minds now writing in comparative and interdisciplinary fields. Through lively discussions of topics ranging from Sigmund Freud to Zora Neale Hurston, from Christopher Columbus to the Holocaust, and including latter-day cultural icons such as Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the contributors create a stimulating dialogue on the crucial role of the poetic imagination in shaping the identity of civilisations.
Addressing themes such as the Moses story in modern literature, the relation between power and cultural encounter, the first African-American novel, and the foundations of Latin American literature and the New World baroque, the contributors link multiculturalism with intertextuality, crossing disciplinary, national, linguistic, and hemispheric boundaries. The volume closes with Jefferson Humphries' deft translation of a poem by Edouard Glissant, a featured speaker at the conference whose writings bear a special relation to the subject of intertextuality.
Together, the essays offer a full consideration of cultural identity and bring to the fore the difficult question of the larger responsibilities that identity entails. As Bainard Cowan illustrates in his perceptive introduction, in both the past and the future of the Americas, in moments of foundation as well as of conflict and dispersal, there has been or will be present the recurrent need for mythic and poetic understanding. An unusually timely work, Poetics of the Americas skillfully addresses the crises that the world faces in the confrontations of cultures, traditions, and peoples.
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