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El primitivo implorante : El sistema poético del mundo" de José Lezama Lima" /
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La crítica ha señalado con frecuencia el carácter proliferante de la escritura lezamiana, y ha tendido o a exaltar esta proliferación como índice de su modernidad, de su carácter neobarroco, o a reducirla a una suma o totalización. Mediante una serie de lecturas detalladas de la ensayística de Lezama y de Paradiso, El primitivo implorante se propone, al contrario, precisar algunos de los elementos que, por un lado, impulsan esa proliferación y, por otro, impiden que ella se fije en sistema o totalización. En otras palabras, la crítica ha solido subrayar la libertad con que Lezama-Adán, desde su posición céntrica, o lo que es lo mismo, su margen de posibilidades infinitas, baraja su circunstancia. Este estudio enfoca, en cambio, sus límites. Sin pretender agotarlos, El primitivo implorante analiza los contrapuntos o tejidos que se urden en torno a los elementos que provocan e impiden la teleología lezamiana. Elementos, por así decirlo, díscolos, tales como el negrismo o la sensibilidad negra, la pérdida de una ontología nacional o el primitivo implorante, la homosexualidad o el eunuco poseedor y el receptor de masas o el dragón devorador. Los ejes de esta nueva lectura de Lezama son la interpretación, la homosexualidad y la nación.
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1 online resource (140 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004656635
Brill's Companion to Classics in the Early Americas /
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Brill's Companion to Classics in the Early Americas illuminates the remarkable range of Greco-Roman classical receptions across the western hemisphere from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth century. Bringing together fifteen essays by scholars working at the intersection of Classics and all aspects of Americanist studies, this unique collection examines how Hispanophone, Lusophone, Anglophone, Francophone, and/or Indigenous individuals engaged with Greco-Roman literary cultures and materials. By coming at the matter from a multilingual transhemispheric perspective, it disrupts prevailing accounts of classical reception in the Americas which have typically privileged North over South, Anglophone over non-Anglophone, and the cultural production of hegemonic groups over that of more marginalized others. Instead it offers a fresh account of how Greco-Roman literatures and ideas were in play from Canada to the Southern Cone to the Caribbean, treating classical reception in the early Americas as a dynamic, polyvocal phenomenon which is truly transhemispheric in reach.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004468658
9789004468573
In-Between Identities: Signs of Islam in Contemporary American Writing.
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For the writers and artists in In-Between Identities: Signs of Islam in Contemporary American Writing , contemporary Muslim American identity is neither singular nor fixed. Rather than dismiss the tradition in favor of more secular approaches, however, all of the figures here discover in Muhammad's revelation resources for affirming such uncertainty. For them, the Qur'anic notion of a divine "sign" validates creation, even that creativity born of contrasting if not competing assumptions about identity. To develop this claim, individual chapters in the book discuss Muslim faith in the work of poets Naomi Shihab Nye, Kazim Ali, Tyson Amir and Amir Sulaiman; novelists Mohja Kahf, Rabih Alameddine, and Willow Wilson; illustrator Sandow Birk; playwright Ayad Akhtar; and the online record of the 30 Mosques in 30 Days project.
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1 online resource. :
9789004382541