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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Named Person: | Jorge Luis Borges; Jorge Luis Borges |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robin W Fiddian |
ISBN: | 9780198794714 9780191836176 0198794711 0191836176 |
OCLC Number: | 994291270 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Introduction: Borges, Latin America, and Postcolonial Discourse1: Setting the Political and Cultural Agenda: Selected Writings of the Nineteen Twenties and Thirties from Inquisiciones to Discusion2: Giving Voice(s) to Argentina: From 'The Language of the Argentines' and Early Poetry to 'Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote'3: 'Tloen Uqbar, Orbis Tertius': Reflections on/of Coloniality4: Self, Family, Nation: Writing Postcolonial Argentina in 'Theme of the Traitor and the Hero'5: Consolidating the Postcolonial Agenda: Culture and Politics in Selected Writings of the Nineteen Fifties and Sixties6: Europe in the Dock: An Intertextual Reading of 'Brodie's Report'7: Borges the Post-Orientalist: Selected Writings of the Nineteen Seventies and Eighties8: Borges, Politics, and the PostcolonialBibliographyIndex |
Responsibility: | Robin W. Fiddian. |
Abstract:
Postcolonial Borges is the first systematic account of geo-political and postcolonial themes in the writings of Borges, from the poetry and essays of the 1920s to his later works and collections. This book shows how Borges's political and artistic temperament mark him out as a postcolonial intellectual and creative writer who is sui generis.
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An indispensable study, Postcolonial Borges allows us to (re-)encounter a writer sharply attuned to the vexed colonial legacies and geopolitical issues of his time, a contradictory figure whose aesthetic development was marked by a shift from youthful political activism to a detached conservative leaning. * Patricia Novillo-Corvalan, Modern Language Review * Read more...
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