Shakespearean Cultures: Latin America and the Challenges of Mimesis in Non-Hegemonic Circumstances

by Joaao Cezar De Castr Rocha and João Cezar de Castro Rocha

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"