Lexington Books
Pages: 154
Trim: 6½ x 9
978-1-4985-7617-8 • Hardback • September 2020 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-4985-7618-5 • eBook • September 2020 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Gorica Majstorovic is professor of Spanish and coordinator of Latin American and Caribbean studies at Stockton University.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Avant-Garde and Mexican Petrofiction
Chapter 2 Decolonial Modernism: Amauta, Boletín Titikaka, and Zenit
Chapter 3 Cinematic Montage in Baldomera and Los siete locos
Chapter 4 Unsettling Travel Narrative: Darío, Henríquez Ureña, Güiraldes, and Arlt
Chapter 5 Improbable Cosmopolitanism and the Global South
Bibliography
About the Author
This volume explores avant-garde literature in Latin America in the fertile period between the two world wars. What makes the book valuable is the displacement of its focus: whereas previous studies saw the various Latin American avant-gardes exclusively as outgrowths of European movements, Majstorovic offers a Global South perspective, one of multiple networks of solidarity and artistic and political engagement, and she clarifies the area’s contribution to the establishment of that Global South. Recommended.
— Choice Reviews
This highly innovative contribution to the field presents a timely re-evaluation of the Latin American modernist and avant-garde literature of the inter-war period through an anti-imperialist lens, drawing on a range of conceptual frameworks from both postcolonial and decolonial critical traditions.
— Modern Language Review