Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse

Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse

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Pratt, Mary Louise

Language Study & Reference

Indiana Univ. Pr

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Routledge

Updated and expanded throughout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long- awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field.

Planetary Longings (Dissident Acts)

In Planetary Longings eminent cultural theorist Mary Louise Pratt posits that the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first mark a turning point in the human and planetary condition. Examining the forces of modernity, neoliberalism, coloniality, and indigeneity in their pre- and postmillennial forms, Pratt reflects on the crisis of futurity that accompanies the millennial turn in relation to environmental disaster and to the new forms of thinking it has catalyzed. She turns to 1990s Latin American vernacular culture, literary fiction, and social movements, which simultaneously registered neoliberalism's devastating effects and pursued alternate ways of knowing and living. Tracing the workings of colonialism alongside the history of anticolonial struggles and Indigenous mobilizations in the Americas, Pratt analyzes indigeneity both as a key index of coloniality, neoliberal extraction, and ecological destruction, and as a source for alternative modes of thought and being. Ultimately, Pratt demonstrates that the changes on either side of the millennium have catalyzed new forms of world-making and knowledge-making in the face of an unknowable and catastrophic future.

History

Duke University Press

In Planetary Longings eminent cultural theorist Mary Louise Pratt posits that the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first mark a turning point in the human and planetary condition. Examining the forces of modernity, neoliberalism, coloniality, and indigeneity in their pre- and postmillennial forms, Pratt reflects on the crisis of futurity that accompanies the millennial turn in relation to environmental disaster and to the new forms of thinking it has catalyzed. She turns to 1990s Latin American vernacular culture, literary fiction, and social movements, which simultaneously registered neoliberalism’s devastating effects and pursued alternate ways of knowing and living. Tracing the workings of colonialism alongside the history of anticolonial struggles and Indigenous mobilizations in the Americas, Pratt analyzes indigeneity both as a key index of coloniality, neoliberal extraction, and ecological destruction, and as a source for alternative modes of thought and being. Ultimately, Pratt demonstrates that the changes on either side of the millennium have catalyzed new forms of world-making and knowledge-making in the face of an unknowable and catastrophic future.

El relato de viajes encendió durante siglos la imaginación europea y llevó consigo la fe de un proyecto expansionista presentado como apasionante misión ecuménica. He aquí una aguda lectura de relatos de muy diversa índole que presentan una rica variedad de miradas colonizadoras: escritos del siglo XVIII sobre África del Sur, la literatura de viajes sentimental, la temprana exploración del África Occidental, la invención de América del Sur durante la independencia y, de forma más reciente, la diáspora desde las antiguas colonias latinoamericanas hacia las metrópolis en busca de una vida mejor.

Ojos imperiales. Literatura de viajes y transculturación

FONDO DE CULTURA ECONOMICA*

Los imaginarios planetarios

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Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse

Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation

Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation

Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation

Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation

Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation

Planetary Longings (Dissident Acts)

Planetary Longings (Dissident Acts)

Ojos imperiales. Literatura de viajes y transculturación

Los imaginarios planetarios