Centers and Peripheries in Romance Language Literatures in the Americas and Africa

Petr Kyloušek (1952), Masaryk University, Czech Republic, is a professor of Romance literatures. He has published monographs and articles, mainly on French and Quebec literatures, including History of French-Canadian and Quebec Literature (2005).

Notes on Contributors



Introduction

 Petr Kyloušek



1 What Is the Center and What Is the Periphery?

 Petr Kyloušek



Part 1 Processes of Deperipheralization



2 What Does Deperipheralization Refer to?

 Petr Kyloušek



3 American Francophone Literature: Quebec, Martinique, Haiti

 Petr Kyloušek



4 The Deperipheralization of Spanish Latin America

 Daniel Vázquez Touriño



5 Surviving the Borderlands: Living Sin Fronteras, Becoming a Crossroads: The Deperipheralization of the Chicano/a Cultural/Literary Space

 Markéta Riebová



6 The Long Journey of Brazilian Literature toward Autonomy: The 19th Century

 Eva Batličková



7 The Search for the Singularity of Brazilian Literature in the 20th Century

 Zuzana Burianová



8 The Shared History of Maghreb Countries

 Míla Janišová



9 French Africa: A Colonial Victory or a Moral One?

 Vojtěch Šarše



10 Sub-Saharan African Literature in French from the 1980s to the Present: The Symbolic Year 1980 as an Aesthetic and Thematic Turn

 Petr Vurm



11 Angola and Mozambique

 Silvie Špánková



Part 2 Centralities



Introduction to Part 2: Centralities

 Petr Kyloušek



12 Paris—Centrality as an Initiator of Deperipheralization

 Petr Dytrt,Eva Voldřichová Beránková



13 Innovation and Networks in the Spanish Novel of the 1960s: Juan Goytisolo

 José Luis Bellón Aguilera



14 From Migrant Literature to Contemporary Literature of Transcultural Italy: Forms and Effects of a Strategic Marginality

 Chiara Mengozzi



Part 3 Case Studies



Introduction to Part 3: Case Studies

 Petr Kyloušek



15 “Lâche pas la patate”: French Language Cultures in Louisiana

 Daniel Paul Sampey



16 The Creolization of Patrick Chamoiseau (Martinique) and René Depestre (Haiti): Language and Center-Periphery Relationship

 Milena Fučíková



17 Abdelkébir Khatibi: The Labyrinth of Language

 Míla Janišová



18 Biculturation, Bilingualism and Orality in the Deperipheralization of Cuban-American Literature

 Marta Hudousková



19 The Caribbean Diaspora and the Construction of Thirdspace in Josefina Báez’s Performative Text Levente No. Yolayorkdominicanyork

 Martina Bařinová



20 Gloria Anzaldúa: Opening up Space at the Border

 Markéta Riebová



21 Rui Knopfli, a Nomad between Babylon and Sion

 Silvie Špánková



22 The Literary Production of Minority Groups in Contemporary Brazilian Literature

 Zuzana Burianová



23 Finding Dialogue through Translation: Literature by Brazilian Indigenous Authors

 Eva Batličková, Caroline Ivanski Langer



24 From the Desert to the Indigenous Utopia, from the Literary Periphery to the Center

The Adventures of China Iron as a Case of the Internationalization of Peripheral Literatures

 Eva Lalkovičová



25 Conclusion

 Petr Kyloušek



Index