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Lezra, Esther Margaret.

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Looking for monsters: Mechanism of history, mechanisms of power.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Looking for monsters: Mechanism of history, mechanisms of power./
Author:	Lezra, Esther Margaret.
Description:	320 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-04, Section: A, page: 1347.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-04A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3170235
ISBN:	9780542070358

Looking for monsters: Mechanism of history, mechanisms of power.
Lezra, Esther Margaret.

Looking for monsters: Mechanism of history, mechanisms of power. - 320 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-04, Section: A, page: 1347.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2005.

Looking for Monsters: Mechanisms of History, Mechanisms of Power makes a crucial intervention in the way we think about literary and cultural studies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, postcolonial literatures and theories and the larger questions of memory, narrative and historicity. Postcolonial and subaltern theories have taught us to read the record against the grain for the traces, ghosts and stories silenced by the colonial and neocolonial ideologies informing the ways we have told and continue to tell our multiple pasts and presents. Expanding on these theories, my dissertation outlines and puts into practice the monstrous as a paradigm of reading and representation considering the mechanisms through which particularly fraught historical moments produce monsters.

ISBN: 9780542070358Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

Looking for monsters: Mechanism of history, mechanisms of power.
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520 $a First, this study embraces the [proto-] nationalist culture and movements coming out of Revolutionary France and Haiti (1740s--1830s) and, second, it examines the post-nationalist, post-independence movements of the French and English Caribbean colonies (1970s--1990s). I show how revolutionary symbols in literature and history are insistently represented as "monstrous" in key [pre]-national and [pre]-revolutionary struggles.
520 $a I show that the exploited populations of the Caribbean and their revolutionary movements provided the fluid political, historical and cultural vessels in which the early nationalisms of France, Britain, Venezuela and Spain were imagined: from their inception, nineteenth century nationalisms were dependent on patterns and models learned from eighteenth-century Caribbean slave rebellions and revolutions, such as the ones of San Domingue and Surinam. As I follow it in the early revolutionary period of the late eighteenth century in the Caribbean and Europe and within the literary and political discourse of postcolonial nationalisms, the monstrous crystallizes at moments of heightened revolution and nationalism. These monstrous crystallizations, also transatlantic and transhistorical creations, turn a story of unnoticed movements and silences into a new narrative of the transatlantic transitions of Europe and its colonial Caribbean territories from colonial empire to nationalism, and from post-nationalism to globalization.
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