Shakespearean Cultures: Latin America and the Challenges of Mimesis in Non-Hegemonic Circumstances
(Part of the Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture (SVMC) Series)
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In Shakespearean Cultures, Ren Girard's ideas on violence and the sacred inform an innovative analysis of contemporary Latin America. Castro Rocha proposes a new theoretical framework based upon the "poetics of emulation" and offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding the asymmetries of the modern world. Shakespearean cultures are those whose self-perception originates in the gaze of a hegemonic Other. The poetics of emulation is a...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1611863139
ISBN13:9781611863130
Release Date:April 2019
Publisher:Michigan State University Press
Length:364 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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