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Beyond Tordesillas: New Approaches to Comparative Luso-Hispanic Studies

Beyond Tordesillas: New Approaches to Comparative Luso-Hispanic Studies

Newcomb, Robert Patrick
Gordon, Richard A.

Paperback

Series: Transoceanic

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0814254349
ISBN13: 9780814254349
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: Oct 22 2017
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Beyond Tordesillas: New Approaches to Comparative Luso-Hispanic Studies is the first volume of its kind to be published in English. Bringing together young and established scholars, it seeks to consolidate the vital work being done on the connections between the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds on both sides of the Atlantic. The volume builds from an understanding that Iberian and Latin American cultures are inherently transoceanic--having engaged in earlier eras in parallel, and sometimes interconnected, colonization projects around the world and more recently in postcolonial evaluations of these practices and their legacies.

The jumping-off point for Beyond Tordesillas is the critic Jorge Schwartz's evocative call to arms, Down with Tordesillas! In this groundbreaking essay, Schwartz looks to the imaginary line created by the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), which divided the known world into Spanish and Portuguese spheres of influence, to stand in for generations of literary and cultural noncommunication between the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking spheres, and their attendant academic disciplines. This volume's contributions range topically across continents, from the Iberian Peninsula to Latin American countries. They also range across genres, with studies that analyze fictional narrative, music, performance, and visual culture. Beyond Tordesillas forcefully challenges the disciplinary--and indeed, arbitrary--boundaries that for too long have separated Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian studies.

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