TY - BOOK ID - 78074297 TI - Imagining the postcolonial PY - 2015 SN - 1438456239 9781438456232 9781438456218 1438456212 PB - Albany DB - UniCat KW - Comparative literature. KW - Postcolonialism in literature. KW - Comparative literature KW - Literature, Comparative KW - Philology KW - History and criticism KW - French-speaking countries KW - Latin America KW - Countries, French-speaking KW - Francophone countries KW - In literature. KW - Postcolonialism in literature KW - #SBIB:309H515 KW - #SBIB:39A5 KW - Literatuurwetenschap, literatuursociologie KW - Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78074297 AB - Imagining the Postcolonial is the first book dedicated to comparative analysis of Latin American and francophone postcolonial identity. Jaime Hanneken examines the disciplinary, theoretical, and political stakes involved in postcolonial identification in non-anglophone cultural spheres through readings of José Lezama Lima and Édouard Glissant's poetics of place, the symbolic value of Paris in modernista writing and in Congolese Sociétés des Ambianceurs et Personnes Élégantes (sape) rituals, and the scandals surrounding Rigoberta Menchú and Yambo Ouologuem. Hanneken argues that reorienting comparative critique to the priority of the object of study can transform rather than replicate existing conceptual formats of postcoloniality. ER -