The Avant-garde and Geopolitics in Latin America Paperback / softback
by Fernando J. Rosenberg
Part of the Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas series
Paperback / softback
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The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America examines 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 Mario 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 developed on its own terms, outside the European movement, and was not tied to the concept of rejecting existing or prior forms - but instead critiqued modernity itself and developed 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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication Date:30/11/2006
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- ISBN:9780822959168
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication Date:30/11/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780822959168
