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).

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• Notes on ContributorsIntroductionPetr Kyloušek1 What Is the Center and What Is the Periphery?Petr KyloušekPart 1 Processes of Deperipheralization2 What Does Deperipheralization Refer to?Petr Kyloušek3 American Francophone Literature: Quebec, Martinique, HaitiPetr Kyloušek4 The Deperipheralization of Spanish Latin AmericaDaniel Vázquez Touriño5 Surviving the Borderlands: Living Sin Fronteras, Becoming a Crossroads: The Deperipheralization of the Chicano/a Cultural/Literary SpaceMarkéta Riebová6 The Long Journey of Brazilian Literature toward Autonomy: The 19th CenturyEva Batličková7 The Search for the Singularity of Brazilian Literature in the 20th CenturyZuzana Burianová8 The Shared History of Maghreb CountriesMíla Janišová9 French Africa: A Colonial Victory or a Moral One?Vojtěch Šarše10 Sub-Saharan African Literature in French from the 1980s to the Present: The Symbolic Year 1980 as an Aesthetic and Thematic TurnPetr Vurm11 Angola and MozambiqueSilvie ŠpánkováPart 2 CentralitiesIntroduction to Part 2: CentralitiesPetr Kyloušek12 Paris—Centrality as an Initiator of DeperipheralizationPetr Dytrt,Eva Voldřichová Beránková13 Innovation and Networks in the Spanish Novel of the 1960s: Juan GoytisoloJosé Luis Bellón Aguilera14 From Migrant Literature to Contemporary Literature of Transcultural Italy: Forms and Effects of a Strategic MarginalityChiara MengozziPart 3 Case StudiesIntroduction to Part 3: Case StudiesPetr Kyloušek15 “Lâche pas la patate”: French Language Cultures in LouisianaDaniel Paul Sampey16 The Creolization of Patrick Chamoiseau (Martinique) and René Depestre (Haiti): Language and Center-Periphery RelationshipMilena Fučíková17 Abdelkébir Khatibi: The Labyrinth of Language Míla Janišová18 Biculturation, Bilingualism and Orality in the Deperipheralization of Cuban-American LiteratureMarta Hudousková19 The Caribbean Diaspora and the Construction of Thirdspace in Josefina Báez’s Performative Text Levente No. YolayorkdominicanyorkMartina Bařinová20 Gloria Anzaldúa: Opening up Space at the BorderMarkéta Riebová21 Rui Knopfli, a Nomad between Babylon and SionSilvie Špánková22 The Literary Production of Minority Groups in Contemporary Brazilian LiteratureZuzana Burianová23 Finding Dialogue through Translation: Literature by Brazilian Indigenous AuthorsEva Batličková, Caroline Ivanski Langer24 From the Desert to the Indigenous Utopia, from the Literary Periphery to the CenterThe Adventures of China Iron as a Case of the Internationalization of Peripheral LiteraturesEva Lalkovičová25 ConclusionPetr KyloušekIndex