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The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Illuminations SeriesPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (222 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822972976
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin AmericaDDC classification:
  • 860.9358098
LOC classification:
  • PQ7081
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Locating the Avant-Garde -- Chapter 2. A Case for Geopolitics -- Chapter 3. Locating the Future in Los siete locos -- Chapter 4. Macunaíma in the Mouth of the Cannibal -- Chapter 5. Leaving Home: Cosmopolitanism and Travel -- Chapter 6. Cosmopolitanism and Repentance: The Homecoming of the Avant-Garde Poet -- Chapter 7. Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Summary: Examines the canonical Latin American avant-garde texts of the 1920s and 1930s, with particular focus on Roberto Arlt and Mario de Andrade. The movement developed on its own terms, in polemic dialogue with European movements, critiquing modernity itself, and developed a geopolitical awareness that bridged postcolonial and postmodern culture and continues its influence today.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Locating the Avant-Garde -- Chapter 2. A Case for Geopolitics -- Chapter 3. Locating the Future in Los siete locos -- Chapter 4. Macunaíma in the Mouth of the Cannibal -- Chapter 5. Leaving Home: Cosmopolitanism and Travel -- Chapter 6. Cosmopolitanism and Repentance: The Homecoming of the Avant-Garde Poet -- Chapter 7. Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

Examines the canonical Latin American avant-garde texts of the 1920s and 1930s, with particular focus on Roberto Arlt and Mario de Andrade. The movement developed on its own terms, in polemic dialogue with European movements, critiquing modernity itself, and developed a geopolitical awareness that bridged postcolonial and postmodern culture and continues its influence today.

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