Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America, The (Paperback)
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Illuminations
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9780822959168
Published: 22nd March 2006
Script Academic & Professional
Series: Illuminations
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9780822959168
Published: 22nd March 2006
Script Academic & Professional
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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 M-rio 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.
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