"What is center and periphery? How can centers and peripheries be recognized by their ontological and axiological features? How does the axiological saturation of a literary field condition aesthetics? How did these factors transform center-periphery relationships to the former metropolises of Romance literatures of the Americas and Africa? What are the consequences of various deperipheralization contexts and processes for poetics? Using theoretical sections and case studies, this book surveys and investigates the limits of globalization. Through explorations of the intercultural dynamics, the aesthetic contributions of former peripheries are examined in terms of the transformative nature of peripheries on centralities"--
How can center and periphery be recognized by ontological and axiological features? How did these features transform center-periphery relationships to the former metropolises of Romance literatures of the Americas and Africa? What are the consequences of deperipheralization processes for poetics?
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Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Petr Kyloušek
1 What Is the Center and What Is the Periphery?
Petr Kyloušek
Part 1 Processes of Deperipheralization
2 What Does Deperipheralization Refer to?
Petr Kyloušek
3 American Francophone Literature: Quebec, Martinique, Haiti
Petr Kyloušek
4 The Deperipheralization of Spanish Latin America
Daniel Vázquez Touriño
5 Surviving the Borderlands: Living Sin Fronteras, Becoming a Crossroads: The Deperipheralization of the Chicano/a Cultural/Literary Space
Markéta Riebová
6 The Long Journey of Brazilian Literature toward Autonomy: The 19th Century
Eva Batličková
7 The Search for the Singularity of Brazilian Literature in the 20th Century
Zuzana Burianová
8 The Shared History of Maghreb Countries
Míla Janišová
9 French Africa: A Colonial Victory or a Moral One?
Vojtěch Šarše
10 Sub-Saharan African Literature in French from the 1980s to the Present: The Symbolic Year 1980 as an Aesthetic and Thematic Turn
Petr Vurm
11 Angola and Mozambique
Silvie Špánková
Part 2 Centralities
Introduction to Part 2: Centralities
Petr Kyloušek
12 Paris—Centrality as an Initiator of Deperipheralization
Petr Dytrt,Eva Voldřichová Beránková
13 Innovation and Networks in the Spanish Novel of the 1960s: Juan Goytisolo
José Luis Bellón Aguilera
14 From Migrant Literature to Contemporary Literature of Transcultural Italy: Forms and Effects of a Strategic Marginality
Chiara Mengozzi
Part 3 Case Studies
Introduction to Part 3: Case Studies
Petr Kyloušek
15 “Lâche pas la patate”: French Language Cultures in Louisiana
Daniel Paul Sampey
16 The Creolization of Patrick Chamoiseau (Martinique) and René Depestre (Haiti): Language and Center-Periphery Relationship
Milena Fučíková
17 Abdelkébir Khatibi: The Labyrinth of Language
Míla Janišová
18 Biculturation, Bilingualism and Orality in the Deperipheralization of Cuban-American Literature
Marta Hudousková
19 The Caribbean Diaspora and the Construction of Thirdspace in Josefina Báez’s Performative Text Levente No. Yolayorkdominicanyork
Martina Bařinová
20 Gloria Anzaldúa: Opening up Space at the Border
Markéta Riebová
21 Rui Knopfli, a Nomad between Babylon and Sion
Silvie Špánková
22 The Literary Production of Minority Groups in Contemporary Brazilian Literature
Zuzana Burianová
23 Finding Dialogue through Translation: Literature by Brazilian Indigenous Authors
Eva Batličková, Caroline Ivanski Langer
24 From the Desert to the Indigenous Utopia, from the Literary Periphery to the Center
The Adventures of China Iron as a Case of the Internationalization of Peripheral Literatures
Eva Lalkovičová
25 Conclusion
Petr Kyloušek
Index
Petr Kylouek (1952), Masaryk University, Czech Republic, is a professor of Romance literatures. He has published monographs and articles, mainly on French and Quebec literatures, including History of French-Canadian and Quebec Literature (2005).
