Peripheral (post) Modernity: The Syncretist Aesthetics of Borges, Piglia, Kalokyris and Kyriakidis

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Peter Lang, 2007 - Foreign Language Study - 303 pages
Are there such things as peripheral modernity and postmodernity? This groundbreaking book focuses on the notions of modernity and postmodernity in two countries that never before have been studied comparatively: Argentina and Greece. It examines theories of the postmodern and the problems involved in applying them to the hybrid and sui generis cultural phenomena of the «periphery». Simultaneously it offers an exciting insight into the work of Jorge Luis Borges, Ricardo Piglia, Dimitris Kalokyris and Achilleas Kyriakidis, whose syncretist aesthetics are symptomatic of the mixing up of different and often opposed aesthetic principles and traditions that occur in «peripheral» locations. This book will be very useful to scholars and students of Latin American, Modern Greek and comparative literature as well as to those interested in Borges studies.
 

Contents

Chapter
3
Chapter 1
19
Syncretism Hybridity
33
Parallel Ideological
48
El Delta or The Alchemy
65
Lost in Translation
101
The Syncretist Machine
113
Impossible GeographiesPossible Stories
132
A Craftsman of Syncretist Craters
157
A Craftsman of Syncretist Craters
189
Chapter 5
205
A HiStory of Perversion
220
Conspiratorial Games in the Jerusalem
247
Notes
263
Index
285
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The Author: Eleni Kefala lectures in Spanish and Latin American literature at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Cambridge, England, and subsequently held a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, United States. She has published numerous articles on Latin American, Modern Greek and comparative literature.