Latin American Literature in Transition 1930-1980

Herausgeber: Holmes, Amanda; Kumaraswami, Par

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Produktbeschreibung

"A series of wars and revolutions provide the fiery, unsettled bedrock for mid-twentieth-century Latin American literature: on a global scale, World War II and the Cold War mar political alliances; the Cuban Revolution, Peronist Argentina, and the 1968 student movements are some of the regional responses that develop from these international conflicts. Latching onto a transforming world, authors in this era appropriate the discomfort of transition to produce literary works of international acclaim. Mid-century Latin American literature has been framed as a market-driven phenomenon that opened the region up through an exoticization that captured international recognition. This volume takes a different approach, one that rests uncomfortably on a deep political instability - worldwide as well as regional - that is engaged aesthetically by literary authors. It argues that the literature of mid-century Latin America locates its strength within global and regional political conflicts, as well as from within the cultural and social tensions spurred on by economic disparities"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9781009177764
• ISBN-10: 1009177761
• Artikelnr.: 63984138

Inhaltsangabe

I. War, Revolution, Dictatorship: 1. Revolutions and Literary Transitions:
the 1960s Jorge Fornet; 2. Jorge Luis Borges: Probing the Limits of World
War Kate Jenckes; 3. Antifascism and Literature in Brazil: The Many Wars of
Antônio Callado Daniel Mandur Thomaz; 4. Disaster Innovation in the
Mid-Century Spanish-American Novel: Carpentier, Asturias, Donoso Stephen
Henighan; 5. Struggle at the Margins: The Intersections of Gender, Race,
and Sexuality in Brazil's Literature of Revolution Rebecca Atencio; II.
Metropolis and Ruins: 6. Economic, Political and Ecological Disasters: The
Metropolis and its Ruins in Latin American Poetry in the 1960s and 1970s
Cecilia Enjuto Rangel; 7. Mexican-Miracle Modernism Ignacio Sánchez Prado;
8. Crime and the City: A Critical Walk through Latin American Crime Fiction
and Urban Places Emilio J. Gallardo; III. Solidarity: 9. 'Dar testimonio'
as a Form of Solidarity and a Lens for Rethinking the Mexican Literary
Canon Sarah Bowskill; 10. Landscapes of Heterogeneity in a Mid-Twentieth
Century Quechua Poem Charles Pigott; 11. Beyond the Nation Frame:
Rethinking the Presence of Indigenous Literatures in the Spanish-American
Novel circa 1950 Estelle Tarica; 12. Femininity in Flux: Gabriela Mistral's
Madwomen Amanda Holmes; 13. The Representation of Afro-Cuban Orality by
Fernando Ortiz, Lydia Cabrera and Nicolás Guillén Miguel Arnedo Gómez; IV.
Aesthetics and Innovation: 14. Eros: After Surrealism and Before the
Revolution (1945-1967) Sarah Ann Wells; 15. Alejo Carpentier: Some Brief
Bio-Bibliographical Notes Rafael Rodríguez Beltrán and The Return of the
Galleons: Transitions in the Work of Alejo Carpentier Graziella Pogolotti;
16. 'Un híbrido de halcón y jicotea.' Testimonio and its Challenge to the
Latin American Literary Canon Par Kumaraswami; 17. Literature and
Revolution in Transition: An Aesthetics of Singularity Bruno Bosteels; 18.
Confluence and Divergence: Avant-garde Poetics in Twentieth-Century Spanish
America and Brazil Odile Cisneros; 19. Cortázar's Transitional Poetics:
Experiments in Verse behind Experiments in Prose Marcy Schwarz.