Subaltern Writings - Readings on Graciliano Ramos's Novels (Hardcover, New edition)

Subaltern Writings focuses on one of the most important Brazilian novelists of the first half of the twentieth century, Graciliano Ramos, and critically examines two of his novels, Caetes and Angustia. The analysis is based on the premise that the reader must bring to the forefront the notion of a subject that is close to non-subjectivity and must develop heterodox forms of cultural production as Ramos himself sketches them. Rather than insisting on the protagonists' assumed mediocrity or derangement, which has been the norm in previous critical readings of the novels, Subaltern Writings reconstructs how their attempts at composing fictional texts constitute examples of subaltern approaches, often standing alongside "high" cultural production. Unable to enter a circuit of literary writing that silences subaltern speakers, the novels' protagonists create narratives that, instead of becoming finished objects of consumption, end up as fragments or notes. In this sense, Subaltern Writings consists of exercises in reading an object that resists becoming one. This book will be of great interest to researchers and students of Luso-Brazilian and Latin American studies.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Latin America, 27
Release date:	July 2013
First published:	2013
Authors:	Rocha Fernando de Sousa
Dimensions:	225 x 150 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	175
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-2310-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > Classical, early & medieval Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4331-2310-X
Barcode:	9781433123108

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