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Other Writing Postcolonial Essays in Latin Americas Writing Culture

by Djelal Kadir

ISBN13: 9781557530325
ISBN10: 1557530327
Condition: Standard

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Fully conversant with the critical issues of the current cultural debates, Djelal Kadir goes to great pains to articulate and exercise the scruples with which critical reading and cultured scrutiny might proceed without unduly compromising otherness or capitulating the congeniality of reading and writing as civilizing activities.

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"This is an unusual and demanding book. It explores manners of reading against the grain using texts which illustrate alternatives to received notions of logic, linearity, and teleology". -- Forum for Modern Language Studies

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-213) and index.

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ISBN:: 9781557530325
Binding:: Trade Paperback
Publication date:: 07/01/1993
Publisher:: PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pages:: 220
Height:: 9 in.
Width:: 6 in.
Thickness:: .75 in.
Number of Units:: 1
Series Volume:: 9436
UPC Code:: 2801557530327
Author:: Djelal Kadir
Subject:: Fiction
Subject:: Difference (Psychology) in literature
Subject:: Spanish american literature
Subject:: Decolonization in literature
Subject:: Difference
Subject:: Latin american literature
Subject:: Postcolonialism in literature
Subject:: History and criticism

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