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Defining and Defying Borders
Tracing heated exchanges between Spanish and Latin American intellectuals that took place in journals, magazines, and newspapers in the early twentieth century, Defining and Defying Borders details how borders and boundaries were contested within a medium that simultaneously crossed borders and defined boundaries. Vanessa Marie Fernández demonstrates that print media is an invaluable resource for scholars because it offers a nuanced perspective of the complex postcolonial relationship between Spain and Latin America that shaped aesthetic production within and beyond national boundaries. Presenting inclusive paradigms that are at once able to transcend borders, acknowledge national boundaries, and account for empire, Defining and Defying Borders illustrates that investigating journals, magazines, and newspapers is crucial to better understanding postcolonial literary and cultural production.
Cannibal Translation
A bold comparative study illustrating the creative potential of translations that embrace mutuality and resist assimilation Cannibal translators digest, recombine, transform, and trouble their source materials. Isabel C. Gómez makes the case for this model of literary production by excavating a network of translation projects in Latin America that includes canonical writers of the twentieth century, such as Haroldo and Augusto de Campos, Rosario Castellanos, Clarice Lispector, José Emilio Pacheco, Octavio Paz, and Ángel Rama. Building on the avant-garde reclaiming of cannibalism as an Indigenous practice meant to honorably incorporate the other into the self, these authors took up Brazili...
The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies
Over the past decades, the growing interest in the study of literature of the city has led to the development of literary urban studies as a discipline in its own right. The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies provides a methodical overview of the fundamentals of this developing discipline and a detailed outline of new directions in the field. It consists of 33 newly commissioned chapters that provide an outline of contemporary literary urban studies. The Companion covers all of the main theoretical approaches as well as key literary genres, with case studies covering a range of different geographical, cultural, and historical settings. The final chapters provide a window into new ...
Surveying the Avant-Garde
Surveying the Avant-Garde examines the art and literature of the Americas in the early twentieth century through the lens of the questionnaire, a genre as central as the manifesto to the history of the avant-garde. Questions such as “How do you imagine Latin America?” and “What should American art be?” issued by avant-garde magazines like Imán, a Latin American periodical based in Paris, and Cuba’s Revista de Avance demonstrate how editors, writers, and readers all grappled with the concept of “America,” particularly in relationship to Europe, and how the questionnaire became a structuring device for reflecting on their national and aesthetic identities in print. Through an an...
Dwelling in Fiction
Explores the affective, ethical, and political demands that difficult reading places on readers of midcentury Latin American literature The radical formal experiments undertaken by writers across Latin America in the mid-twentieth century introduced friction, opacity, and self-reflexivity to the very act of reading. Dwelling in Fiction: Poetics of Place and the Experimental Novel in Latin America explores the limitations and the possibilities of literature for conveying place-specific forms of life. Focusing on authors such as José María Arguedas, João Guimarães Rosa, and Juan José Saer, who are often celebrated for universalizing regional themes, Ashley R. Brock brings a new critical l...
Subterranean Space in Contemporary Mexico City Literature
This book studies the role of subterranean spaces in literary works about Mexico City. It analyzes how underground spaces such as the subway, the sewage system, tunnels, crypts, and the subsoil itself relate to the whole of the city in a body of works published after 1985, the year of the deadliest earthquake in the capital’s history. The texts belong to the most important genres in urban literature (the novel, the short story, and the crónica) and demonstrate the crucial role played by the underground in contemporary imaginings of the megalopolis, as it condenses and confronts the tensions that run through them. This central idea is developed through four analytical chapters focusing on the political, ecological, historical, and aesthetic dimension of subterranean imaginaries.
Historia comparada de las literaturas Argentina y Brasileña
El paralelismo histórico entre la Revolución de Mayo y la Independencia brasileña participa de la disimetría entre el entusiasmo ideológico y las producciones estéticas hasta que sobrevino el romanticismo como molde literario y teórico para pensar la nación y lo propio, y en tanto primera orientación cultural independentista. La poesía de Mayo, la revista Niterói y sus secuelas, el Salón Literario de Buenos Aires y los autores canónicos de mediados del siglo XIX exhiben una continuidad a veces dificultosa y otras veces francamente rebelde respecto de los textos coloniales que dieron un perfil y un nombre a los países, desde la Carta de Caminha y La Argentina de Centenera hasta ...
La filosofía argentina de mediados del siglo XX
Si varios propósitos atraviesan estos trabajos, uno fundamental, es la posibilidad de volver sobre el territorio de la filosofía argentina para encontrar y proponer nuevos mapas y recorridos. O para decirlo de otro modo: leer y releer la textualidad filosófica argentina de mediados del siglo XX, atendiendo a un corpus vivo de figuras, temas y perspectivas. La reconstrucción del pasado filosófico supone modos de leerlo y de traerlo al presente. Se trata, entonces, de pensar, o de volver a pensar, la memoria filosófica construida y, también, de advertir acerca de las coordenadas desde las cuales nos ocupamos de ese pasado. La cultura filosófica de mediados de siglo XX, con sus conceptos, teorías, prácticas y entrecruzamientos disciplinares, constituye una instancia significativa de elaboraciones y representaciones del campo filosófico y cultural argentino.Interpelar esos legados y genealogías nos habilita a volver a leer desde nuevas preguntas y renovadas miradas hermenéuticas.
