Latin American literature in transition 1930-1980 / edited by Amanda Holmes, Par Kumaraswami.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holmes, Amanda, 1972- editor.

Kumaraswami, Par, editor.

Series:

Latin American literature in transition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Latin American literature.

Literature and society--Latin America--History--20th century.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 327 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York , NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Latin American Literature in Transition 1930-1980 explores the literary landscape of the mid-twentieth-century and the texts that were produced during that period. It takes four core areas of thematic and conceptual focus - solidarity, aesthetics and innovation, war, revolution and dictatorship, metropolis and ruins - and employs them to explore the complexity, heterogeneity and hybridity of form, genre, subject matter and discipline that characterised literature from the period. In doing so, it uncovers the points of transition, connection, contradiction, and tension that shaped the work of many canonical and non-canonical authors. It illuminates the conversations between genres, literary movements, disciplines and modes of representation that underpin writing form this period. Lastly, by focusing on canon and beyond, the volume visibilizes the aesthetics, poetics, politics, and social projects of writing, incorporating established writers, but also writers whose work is yet to be examined in all its complexity.

Contents:

Part I: War, Revolution, Dictatorship

Revolutions and Literary Transitions: the 1960s / Jorge Fornet

Jorge Luis Borges: Probing the Limits of World War / Kate Jenckes

Antifascism and Literature in Brazil: The Many Wars of Antônio Callado

Daniel / Mandur Thomaz

Disaster Innovation in the Mid-Century Spanish-American Novel: Carpentier, Asturias, Donoso / Stephen Henighan

Struggle at the Margins: The Intersections of Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Brazil's Literature of Revolution / Rebecca Atencio

Part II: Metropolis and Ruins

Economic, Political and Ecological Disasters: The Metropolis and its Ruins in Latin American Poetry in the 1960s and 1970s / Cecilia Enjuto Rangel

Mexican-Miracle Modernism / Ignacio Sánchez Prado

Crime and the City: A Critical Walk through Latin American Crime Fiction and Urban Places / Emilio J. Gallardo

Part III: Solidarity

'Dar testimonio' as a Form of Solidarity and a Lens for Rethinking the Mexican Literary Canon / Sarah Bowskill

Landscapes of Heterogeneity in a Mid-Twentieth Century Quechua Poem / Charles Pigott

Beyond the Nation Frame: Rethinking the Presence of Indigenous Literatures in the

Spanish-American Novel circa

Estelle Tarica

Femininity in Flux: Gabriela Mistral's Madwomen

Amanda Holmes

The Representation of Afro-Cuban Orality by Fernando Ortiz, Lydia Cabrera and

Nicolás Guillén

Miguel Arnedo Gómez

Part IV: Aesthetics and Innovation

Eros: After Surrealism and Before the Revolution (1945-1967)

Sarah Ann Wells

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

'Un híbrido de halcón y jicotea.' Testimonio and its Challenge to the Latin American Literary Canon / Par Kumaraswami

Literature and Revolution in Transition: An Aesthetics of Singularity / Bruno Bosteels

Confluence and Divergence: Avant-garde Poetics in Twentieth-Century Spanish America and Brazil / Odile Cisneros

Cortázar's Transitional Poetics: Experiments in Verse behind Experiments in Prose / Marcy Schwarz.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Jan 2023).

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ISBN:

9781009177771 (ebook)

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