{"product_id":"cannibal-modernities-lus-madureira-9780813923765","title":"Cannibal Modernities: Postcoloniality and the Avant-Garde in Caribbean and Brazilian Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnique in its inclusion of Brazil in a comparative study of literary texts and their engagement with Western modernity, \u003ci\u003eCannibal Modernities\u003c\/i\u003e is the first postcolonial study to show how the \"peripheral\" replications of modernity in contemporary Caribbean and Latin American texts differ crucially from their European models.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLu? Madureira addresses issues that so many postcolonial theorists have struggled with, particularly the complx interactions and antagonisms between indigenous cultures and the imperial cultures imposed upon them and the effort to \"provincialize the West.\" Madureira's book diverges from existing critical texts, however, in crucial, thought-provoking ways. The specific literary traditions compared here--Brazilian modernism, N馮ritude theory and poetry, as well as Caribbean literary theory and historical discourses in French, English, and Spanish--have not been brought together in a single study before. In addition, the book's theoretical model of comparison focuses on the complexities of colonial and postcolonial identity and of nationhood and globalization, as well as on tyheir agonoistic engagement with Europe's enlightenment philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCannibal Modernities \u003c\/i\u003eshows us it is precisely in those New World avant-garde movements that have been traditionally designated as imitative that the emergence of postcoloniality resides and, moreover, that Europe's foundational discourses of modernity are enabled and sustained by the very peoples and cultures that have been relegated to the margins by modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lu? Madureira\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081392376X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813923765\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/29\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.92h x 6.08w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2006 pg. 118","brand":"Lu? Madureira","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988288700671,"sku":"9780813923765","price":21.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c725a95f-de13-46ce-ade0-c77f1a9afb90.jpg?v=1683293689","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cannibal-modernities-lus-madureira-9780813923765","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}