The avant-garde and geopolitics in Latin America

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The avant-garde and geopolitics in Latin America

Statement of responsibility

Fernando J. Rosenberg

Creator

• Rosenberg, Fernando J

Subject

• Arlt, Roberto, 1900-1942 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Latin American Literature -- History And Criticism
• Latin American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Literature, Experimental -- History And Criticism
• Literature, Experimental -- Latin America -- History and criticism
• Politics And Literature
• Politics and literature -- Latin America
• Andrade, Mário de, 1893-1945 -- Criticism and interpretation

Language

eng

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Member of

• Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

860.9/358098

LC call number

PQ7081

LC item number

.R664 2006eb

Series statement

Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas

Summary expansion

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 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