Shakespearean Cultures : Latin America and the Challenges of Mimesis in Non-Hegemonic Circumstances (Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture)

de Castro Rocha, João Cezar/ Thomson-DeVeaux, Flora (TRN)

Michigan State University Press（2019/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 370 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781611863130
• DDC分類 801

Full Description

In 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 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 René Girard's work.

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments PRELIMINARY NOTE: An Ongoing Project INTRODUCTION: A Two-Way Street CHAPTER 1. Mimetic Theory: Basic Concepts CHAPTER 2. Latin American Cultural History and Mimetic Theory CHAPTER 3. Being ab alio CHAPTER 4. Poetics of Emulation CHAPTER 5. Violence and Mimetic Theory CHAPTER 6. Barefaced? CONCLUSION. The Other One Held Out His Hand Notes Bibliography General Index Name Index