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João Cezar de Castro Rocha - Shakespearean Cultures, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Del i serien Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture

Shakespearean Cultures

Latin America and the Challenges of Mimesis in Non-Hegemonic Circumstances

Av João Cezar de Castro Rocha

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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.
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João Cezar de Castro Rocha is Full Professor of comparative literature at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. He was the President of the Brazilian Association of Comparative Literature from 2016 to 2017 and is the author of eleven books. He is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

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“With Shakespearean Cultures, the Brazilian critic and literary scholar João Cezar de Castro Rocha has produced a remarkable achievement. At once a reflection on the influential theories of René Girard and a powerful revision of Latin American literary history, Shakespearean Cultures proposes nothing less than a new theory of cultural production from the margins, a poetics of emulation that promises to rewrite our understanding of cultural power dynamics for years to come.”—WILLIAM EGGINTON, Decker Professor in the Humanities and Director, Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, Johns Hopkins University

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