The Resource Cannibal democracy : race and representation in the literature of the Americas, Zita Nunes
Cannibal democracy : race and representation in the literature of the Americas, Zita Nunes
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- Summary
- "Cannibalism as a metaphor for racial assimilation in the United States, the Caribbean, and Brazil." "Zita Nunes argues that the prevailing narratives of identity formation throughout the Americas share a dependence on metaphors of incorporation and, often, of cannibalism. From the position of the incorporating body, the construction of a national and racial identity through a process of assimilation presupposes a remainder, a residue." "Nunes addresses works by writers and artists who explore what is left behind in the formation of national identities and speak to the limits of the contemporary discourse of democracy. Cannibal Democracy tracks its central metaphor's circulation through the work of writers such as Mario de Andrade, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Toni Morrison and journalists of the black press, as well as work by visual artists including Magdalena Campos-Pons and Keith Piper, and reveals how exclusion - understood in terms of what is left out - can be fruitfully understood in terms of what is left over from a process of unification or incorporation." "Nunes shows that while this remainder can be deferred into the future - lurking as a threat to the desired stability of the present - the residue haunts discourses of national unity, undermining the ideologies of democracy that claim to resolve issues of race."--BOOK JACKET
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xx, 218 pages
- Contents
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- United by anthropophagism
- Bringing in the dead : nostalgia and the refusal of loss in Gilberto Freyre's Casa Grande e Senzala
- The foreigner and the remainder
- The new Negro and the turn to South America
- The remainder is a reminder : cannibalizing the remains of the past
- Isbn
- 9780816648412
- Label
- Cannibal democracy : race and representation in the literature of the Americas
- Title
- Cannibal democracy
- Title remainder
- race and representation in the literature of the Americas
- Statement of responsibility
- Zita Nunes
- Subject
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- Race relations in literature
- Caribbean Area -- Race relations | Historiography
- United States -- Race relations | Historiography
- American literature -- African American authors | History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Democracy in literature
- Brazilian literature -- History and criticism
- Caribbean literature -- History and criticism
- Brazil -- Race relations | Historiography
- Metaphor
- Cannibalism in literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Cannibalism as a metaphor for racial assimilation in the United States, the Caribbean, and Brazil." "Zita Nunes argues that the prevailing narratives of identity formation throughout the Americas share a dependence on metaphors of incorporation and, often, of cannibalism. From the position of the incorporating body, the construction of a national and racial identity through a process of assimilation presupposes a remainder, a residue." "Nunes addresses works by writers and artists who explore what is left behind in the formation of national identities and speak to the limits of the contemporary discourse of democracy. Cannibal Democracy tracks its central metaphor's circulation through the work of writers such as Mario de Andrade, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Toni Morrison and journalists of the black press, as well as work by visual artists including Magdalena Campos-Pons and Keith Piper, and reveals how exclusion - understood in terms of what is left out - can be fruitfully understood in terms of what is left over from a process of unification or incorporation." "Nunes shows that while this remainder can be deferred into the future - lurking as a threat to the desired stability of the present - the residue haunts discourses of national unity, undermining the ideologies of democracy that claim to resolve issues of race."--BOOK JACKET
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Nunes, Zita
- Dewey number
- 305.896/07
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E184.A1
- LC item number
- N86 2008
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Critical American studies series
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- American literature
- Brazilian literature
- Caribbean literature
- Metaphor
- Cannibalism in literature
- Race relations in literature
- Democracy in literature
- United States
- Brazil
- Caribbean Area
- Label
- Cannibal democracy : race and representation in the literature of the Americas, Zita Nunes
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-200) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- United by anthropophagism -- Bringing in the dead : nostalgia and the refusal of loss in Gilberto Freyre's Casa Grande e Senzala -- The foreigner and the remainder -- The new Negro and the turn to South America -- The remainder is a reminder : cannibalizing the remains of the past
- Control code
- 191760086
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xx, 218 pages
- Isbn
- 9780816648412
- Isbn Type
- (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2008018324
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)191760086
- Label
- Cannibal democracy : race and representation in the literature of the Americas, Zita Nunes
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-200) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- United by anthropophagism -- Bringing in the dead : nostalgia and the refusal of loss in Gilberto Freyre's Casa Grande e Senzala -- The foreigner and the remainder -- The new Negro and the turn to South America -- The remainder is a reminder : cannibalizing the remains of the past
- Control code
- 191760086
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xx, 218 pages
- Isbn
- 9780816648412
- Isbn Type
- (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2008018324
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)191760086
Subject
- American literature -- African American authors | History and criticism
- Brazil -- Race relations | Historiography
- Brazilian literature -- History and criticism
- Cannibalism in literature
- Caribbean Area -- Race relations | Historiography
- Caribbean literature -- History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Democracy in literature
- Metaphor
- Race relations in literature
- United States -- Race relations | Historiography
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