Cannibal Modernities: Postcoloniality and the Avant-Garde in Caribbean and Brazilian Literature

by Luis Madureira

Book Overview

Unique in its inclusion of Brazil in a comparative study of literary texts and their engagement with Western modernity, Cannibal Modernities 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.

Lu s Madureira addresses issues that so many postcolonial theorists have struggled with, particularly the complx interactions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081392376X
• ISBN13: 9780813923765
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher