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Book SynopsisWhat 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.
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Table of ContentsNotes 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
