Shakespearean Cultures Latin America and the Challenges of Mimesis in Non-Hegemonic Circumstances |
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| Author:
| de Castro Rocha, João Cezar |
| Translator:
| Thomson-DeVeaux, Flora |
| Series title: | Studies in Violence, Mimesis and Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61186-313-0 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2019 |
| Publisher: | Michigan State University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $29.95 |
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Shakespearean Cultures, René 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 framework developed in this book yields thought-provoking...
More DescriptionIn Shakespearean Cultures, René 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 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 René Girard's work.