Martín Lienhard
Martin Lienhard (Basel 1946) is since 1989 full professor for Spanish American, Brasilian and Luso-African literatures at the University of Zurich. He studied Spanish, French and islamology at the Universities of Basel, Salamanca, Coimbra and Geneva. He obtained his doctorat ès lettres in Geneva (1982) with Cultura andina y forma novelesca, a study about the Peruvian writer and anthropologist José María Arguedas. Before 1989, he has been teaching at the Universities of Geneva, Berlin (Latin American Institute), and Göttingen. As a visiting professor, he has given courses or seminars at ULA Mérida (Venezuela), U. of Iowa, UC Irvine, Casa de las Américas (La Habana), UFBA Salvador da Bahia, USP São Paulo, U. de Mar del Plata, UNAM México, U. Veracruzana (Xalapa), U. de Chile (Santiago de Chile), U. de Neuchâtel, U. de Fribourg. His research areas are colonial and modern intercultural literatures, indigenous writing in Latin America, Quechua orality, history of black slaves in Latin America, African colonial history, Afro-American rituality, anthropology & literature, Latin American cinema. Selected books : La voz y su huella (Premio Casa de las Américas 1989, fourth edition México 2003), Testimonios, cartas y manifiestos indígenas: desde la conquista hasta comienzos del siglo XX (Caracas 1992), O mar e o mato - Histórias da escravidão: Congo-Angola, Brasil, Caribe (Salvador da Bahia 1998, Luanda 2005 ; French version Le discours des esclaves – de l’Afrique à l’Amérique latine, Paris 2001), Disidentes, rebeldes, insurgentes. Resistencia indígena y negra en América Latina. Ensayos de historia testimonial (Madrid / Frankfurt 2008). As an organizer of a series of interdisciplinary workshops, he has edited Culturas marginadas y procesos de modernización en América Latina (Genève 1995-1996), La memoria popular y sus transformaciones (Madrid-Frankfurt 2000), Ritualidades latinoamericanas : un acercamiento interdisciplinario (Madrid-Frankfurt 2002), Discursos sobre la pobreza (Madrid-Frankfurt, 2006), Expulsados, desterrados, desplazados. Migraciones forzadas en América Latina y en África (Madrid-Frankfurt, 2011).
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