Screen LibraryModernism and Latin America : transnational networks of literary exchange /
This book is the first in-depth exploration of the relationship between Latin American and European modernisms during the long twentieth century. Drawing on comparative, historical, and postcolonial reading strategies (including archival research), it seeks to reenergize the study of modernism by pu...
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ;
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| Summary: |
This book is the first in-depth exploration of the relationship between Latin American and European modernisms during the long twentieth century. Drawing on comparative, historical, and postcolonial reading strategies (including archival research), it seeks to reenergize the study of modernism by putting the spotlight on the cultural networks and aesthetic dialogues that developed between European and non-European writers, including Pablo Neruda, James Joyce, Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Jorge Luis Borges, Victoria Ocampo, Roberto Bolaño, Julio Cortázar, Samuel Beckett, Octavio Paz, Ca |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-182) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781138218505 (hardback) : 1138218502 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | PQ7081 |
| CLC: | I730.065 |
| Call Number: | I730.065/N943 |
| Contents: | Introduction: transnational modernist networks -- Empire and commerce in Latin America: historicising Woolf's The Voyage Out -- Anti-imperialist commitments: mapping Neruda's transnational modernist networks -- The cultural politics of world literature: Beckett, Paz, and UNESCO -- Joyce, Borges, Bolan̋o, and the dialectics of expansion and compression -- Lawrence, Lowry, Balan̋o, and the myth of the infernal paradise. |