Literary Landscapes of Time : : Multiple Temporalities and Spaces in Latin American and Caribbean Literatures / / ed. by Jobst Welge, Juliane Tauchnitz.

The volume asks how the literatures of the Americas and the Caribbean present multiple or internally differentiated spaces and how these are distinguished or traversed by different temporalities. The historical and (post)colonial experiences of these areas turns them into especially fertile ground f...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Latin American Literatures in the World / Literaturas Latinoamericanas en el Mundo , 15
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIII, 201 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • “Children, Butterflies, and Latin American Literary Landscapes.” Introductional Essay
  • Introduction
  • I Locations and Spatiotemporal Constellations: Lives, Literary Fields
  • Spatial Dynamics and Colonial Positioning in Nineteenth-Century Spanish- and French-Language Caribbean Literatures
  • Dissolution of Time and Space in Memórias postumas de Brás Cubas
  • Recreating the World of the Cuban Revolution: Geopolitical Imagination and Entangled Spaces in the Graphic Memoir Adiós mi Habana (2017)
  • II Literary Landscapes and Temporalities: Regions and World(s)
  • Timescapes of the Desert: Multiple Temporalities in Guimarães Rosa’s Grande Sertão
  • Tropical Temporalities: Literary Landscape and Multiple Times in Alejo Carpentier’s Los Pasos Perdidos
  • The Whims of the Climate: Landscapes of Deep Time in Juan José Saer’s Las Nubes
  • III Specters, Ruins, Catastrophes
  • The Landscape in Ruins
  • Presencing Absence: Ruin as Counter-Monument in Caribbean Literature
  • Prisons, Ruins, Bodies, and the Extension of Space and Time in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Un dimanche au cachot
  • Whirlwinds of Sounds: Rethinking Hurricane Temporalities through Contemporary Poetry from the Lesser Antilles
  • Night-time Mobilities in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema: Spectralities in the 24-hour City and the Case of Burning Night (2019)