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008			110923s2011 inu o 00 0 eng d
020			_a9781612491646
020			_a1612491642
020			_z9781557536051 (pbk.)
020			_a9781612491653
020			_z1557536058
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aPN3448.P6 _bM37 2011
082	0	0	_a809.3/93581 _223
100	1		_aMarques, Irene, _d1969-
245	1	0	_aTransnational discourses on class, gender, and cultural identity _h[electronic resource] / _cIrene Marques.
260			_aWest Lafayette, Ind. : _bPurdue University Press, _cc2011. _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (xi, 208 p. )
490	0		_aComparative cultural studies
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 191-201) and index.
520			_a"This exploration of class, feminism, and cultural identity (including issues of race, nation, colonialism, and economic imperialism) focuses on the work of four writers: the Mozambican Mia Couto, the Portuguese Jose Saramago, the Brazilian Clarice Lispector, and the South African J.M. Coetzee. In the first section, the author discusses the political aspects of Couto's collection of short stories Contos do nascer da terra (Stories of the Birth of the Land) and Saramago's novel O ano da morte de Ricardo Reis (The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis). The second section explores similar themes in Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K and Lispector's A hora da estrela (The Hour of the Star). Marques argues that these four writers are political in the sense that they bring to the forefront issues pertaining to the power of literature to represent, misrepresent, and debate matter related to different subaltern subjects: the postcolonial subject, the poor subject (the "poor other"), and the female subject. She also discusses the "ahuman other" in the context of the subjectivity of the natural world, the dead, and the unborn, and shows how these aspects are present in all the different societies addressed and point to the mystical dimension that permeates most societies. With regard to Couto's work, this "ahuman other" is approached mostly through a discussion of the holistic, animist values and epistemologies that inform and guide Mozambican traditional societies, while in further analyses the notion is approached via discussions on phenomenology, elementality, and divinity following the philosophies of Levinas and Irigaray and mystical consciousness in Zen Buddhism and the psychology of Jung"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / African. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American. _2bisacsh
650		0	_aLanguage and languages in literature.
650		0	_aPostcolonialism in literature.
650		0	_aIdentity (Psychology) in literature.
650		0	_aOther (Philosophy) in literature.
650		0	_aPolitical fiction _xHistory and criticism.
600	1	0	_aCoetzee, J. M., _d1940- _tLife & times of Michael K.
600	1	0	_aLispector, Clarice. _tHora da estrela.
600	1	0	_aSaramago, Jose. _tAno da morte de Ricardo Reis.
600	1	0	_aCouto, Mia, _d1955- _tContos do nascer da terra.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse.
830		0	_aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781612491646/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c35543 _d35543