Weaving Tales: Anglo-Iberian Encounters on Literatures in English (Routledge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature)

By: Paula García-Ramírez and Beatriz Valverde and Angélica Varandas and Jason Whittaker

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Synopsis: This collection of essays brings together a wide range of Spanish and Portuguese academics and writers exploring the ways in which our encounters with literatures in English inform our assumptions about texts and identities (or texts as identities) and the way we read them. Mapping, examining, reading and re-reading, fashioning and self-fashioning and, especially, weaving appear as appropriate images that convey the complexity and the nature of creative writing. Such a metaphor has been fundamental for the history of world literature since the Roman poet Ovid had included a tale in his Metamorphoses in which weaving, narration, uncertain identities, and the risks of telling uncomfortable truths all figure prominently. As such, these essays trace the intertwined patterns that knit texts together, weaving identities as well as undoing them and, in the process, interrogating established and official truths.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 238 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000988093
Related ISBNs:: 9781032447681, 9781032447728, 9781003373834
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 11/30/23
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Paula García-Ramírez, Beatriz Valverde, Angélica Varandas, Jason Whittaker
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Paula García-Ramírez
Edited by:: Beatriz Valverde
Edited by:: Angélica Varandas
Edited by:: Jason Whittaker