Books in the Sprachen - Literaturen - Kulturen series

Die Arbeit untersucht die verschiedenen Einsatze und Bedeutungsspektren der Todsunden im Libro de buen amor. Die theologischen Vorgaben der pecados mortales werden von Juan Ruiz transformiert und literarisch geoeffnet. Das Thema gewinnt damit eine kompositorische und semantische Vielschichtigkeit, die man als literarische Polyphonie bezeichnen kann.

The close readings of selected literary texts by Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking authors from Africa and Latin America reveal that water spirituality is connected to working conditions and migration overseas. This results in a critical debate which understands these projections as continuity since early modern history.

Nearly 100 years after the Semana de Arte Moderna (The Week of Modern Art) ushered in the Brazilian avant-garde movement modernismo that brought into question Europe's status as role model, the present volume deals with the encounter of cultures, appropriation and hybridization processes, within the transatlantic triangle of Africa, Brazil and Europe from the 17th century until today. Special attention is devoted to the function of Africa as an identity-giving element in Brazilian literature and culture. Furthermore, it deals with conceptions of identity in Portuguese-language African literature of recent decades and how canonical models from other continents are appropriated.