Centers and Peripheries in Romance Language Literatures in the Americas and Africa
Contributor(s)
Kyloušek, Petr (editor)
Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
African; axiological; Brazilian; cultures; decentralization; decolonization; field; globalization; Haitian; Hispano-american; literary; literature; polysystem; postcolonial; Quebec; structuring; world literatureDOI
10.1163/9789004691131ISBN
9789004691131, 9789004691124, 9789004691131Publisher
BrillPublisher website
https://brill.com/Publication date and place
2024Classification
Literature: history and criticism
Literary theory
Africa
Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America
Romance, Italic and Rhaeto-Romanic languages