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Ex-Centric Souths - (Re)Imagining Southern Centers and Peripheries - cover

Ex-Centric Souths - (Re)Imagining Southern Centers and Peripheries

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Publisher: Publicacions de la Universitat de València

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"Ex-Centric Souths: (Re)Imagining Southern Centers and Peripheries" adds a voice in ongoing attempts to chart new routes and to decenter the South in many ways in the hope of exploring Southern identity and multiple Souths. The articles collected in this volume bring to the forefront the translocal and transnational connections and relationships between the South and the circum-Caribbean region; they address the changing nature of Southernness, and especially its sense of place, and finally they investigate the potential of various texts to narrate and revisit regional concerns. Some contributions hold up to view topics ignored and marginalized, while other decontextualize themes and issues central to Southern studies by telling alternative histories.
Available since: 02/04/2020.

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