| Shakespearean Cultures: Latin America and the Challenges of Mimesis in Non-Hegemonic Circumstances Contributor(s): de Castro Rocha, Joćo Cezar (Author), Thomson-Deveaux, Flora (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1611863139 ISBN-13: 9781611863130 Publisher: Michigan State University Press OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Literary Criticism | Shakespeare |
| Dewey: 801 |
| LCCN: 2018020109 |
| Series: Studies in Violence, Mimesis, & Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.15 lbs) 364 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Shakespearean Cultures, Ren Girard's ideas on violence and the sacred inform an innovative analysis of contemporary Latin America. Castro Rocha proposes a new theoretical framework based upon the "poetics of emulation" and offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding the asymmetries of the modern world. Shakespearean cultures are those whose self-perception originates in the gaze of a hegemonic Other. The poetics of emulation is a strategy developed in situations of asymmetrical power relations. This strategy encompasses an array of procedures employed by artists, intellectuals, and writers situated at the less-favored side of such exchanges, whether they be cultural, political, or economic in nature. The framework developed in this book yields thought-provoking readings of canonical authors such as William Shakespeare, Gustave Flaubert, and Joseph Conrad. At the same time, it favors the insertion of Latin American authors into the comparative scope of world literature, and stages an unprecedented dialogue among European, North American, and Latin American readers of Ren Girard's work. |