| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 211 pages) |
| Series |
Illuminations |
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Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
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| Contents |
Locating the avant-garde -- A case for geopolitics -- Locating the future in Los siete locos -- Macunaíma in the mouth of the cannibal -- Leaving home : cosmopolitanism and travel -- Cosmopolitanism and repentance : the homecoming of the avant-garde poet |
| Summary |
Annotation The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin Americaexamines the canonical Latin American avant-garde texts of the 1920s and 1930s in novels, travel writing, journalism, and poetry, and presents them in a new light as formulators of modern Western culture and precursors of global culture. Particular focus is placed on the work of Roberto Arlt and MÁrio de Andrade as exemplars of the movement. Fernando J. Rosenberg provides a theoretical historiography of Latin American literature and the role that modernity and avant-gardism played in it. He finds significant parallels between the cultural battles of the interwar years in Latin America and current debates over the role of the peripheral nation-state within the culture of globalization. Rosenberg establishes that the Latin American avant-garde evolved on its own terms, in polemic dialogue with the European movements, critiquing modernity itself and developing a global geopolitical awareness. In the process these writers created a bridge between postcolonial and postmodern culture, forming a distinct movement that continues its influence today |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-203) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Arlt, Roberto, 1900-1942 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Andrade, Mário de, 1893-1945 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Andrade, Mário de, 1893-1945 fast |
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Arlt, Roberto, 1900-1942 fast |
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Lateinamerika gnd |
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Latin American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Literature, Experimental -- Latin America -- History and criticism
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Politics and literature -- Latin America
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American.
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Latin American literature
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Literature, Experimental
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Politics and literature
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Avantgardeliteratur
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Geopolitik
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Latin America
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Lateinamerika
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822972976 |
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0822972972 |
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0822942798 |
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9780822942795 |
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082295916X |
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9780822959168 |
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