Writing in the Air : Heterogeneity and the Persistence of Oral Tradition in Andean Literatures

Antonio Cornejo Polar

ISBN 10: 0822354322 / ISBN 13: 9780822354321

Verlag: Duke University Press, 2013

Beschreibung

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Originally published in 1994, Writing in the Air is one of the most significant books of modern Latin American literary and cultural criticism. In this seminal work, the influential Latin American literary critic Antonio Cornejo Polar offers the most extended articulation of his efforts to displace notions of hybridity or 'mestizaje' dominant in Latin American cultural studies with the concept of heterogeneity: the persistent interaction of cultural difference that cannot be resolved in synthesis. He reexamines encounters between Spanish and indigenous Andean cultural systems in the New World from the Conquest into the 1980s. Through innovative readings of narratives of conquest and liberation, homogenizing nineteenth- and twentieth-century discourses, and contemporary Andean literature, he rejects the dominance of the written word over oral literature. Cornejo Polar decenters literature as the primary marker of Latin American cultural identity, emphasizing instead the interlacing of multiple narratives that generates the heterogeneity of contemporary Latin American culture.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Writing in the Air : Heterogeneity and the Persistence of Oral Tradition in Andean Literatures
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0822354322
• ISBN-13: 9780822354321
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 235B x 156 H x 13 T Millimeter Breite: 235 mm, Höhe: 156 mm, Tiefe: 13 mm
• Gewicht: 349 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

Originally published in 1994, Writing in the Air is one of the most significant books of modern Latin American literary and cultural criticism. In this seminal work, the influential Latin American literary critic Antonio Cornejo Polar offers the most extended articulation of his efforts to displace notions of hybridity or "mestizaje" dominant in Latin American cultural studies with the concept of heterogeneity: the persistent interaction of cultural difference that cannot be resolved in synthesis. He reexamines encounters between Spanish and indigenous Andean cultural systems in the New World from the Conquest into the 1980s. Through innovative readings of narratives of conquest and liberation, homogenizing nineteenth- and twentieth-century discourses, and contemporary Andean literature, he rejects the dominance of the written word over oral literature. Cornejo Polar decenters literature as the primary marker of Latin American cultural identity, emphasizing instead the interlacing of multiple narratives that generates the heterogeneity of contemporary Latin American culture.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Antonio Cornejo Polar (1936–1997) was an internationally acclaimed Peruvian literary and cultural critic. He taught and served as Rector at the National University of San Marcos in Lima. Over the course of his career, he held visiting professorships in Latin America, Europe, and the United States. Cornejo Polar wrote eleven books and founded and edited the well-respected journal Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinaomericana.