Modernism and Latin America: Transnational Networks of Literary Exchange (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature)

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 shining a spotlight on the cultural networks and aesthetic dialogues that developed between Latin American and European writers, including Pablo Neruda, James Joyce, Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Jorge Luis Borges, Victoria Ocampo, Roberto Bolaäno, Julio Cortâazar, Samuel Beckett, Octavio Paz, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, and Malcolm Lowry. The book explores a wide range of texts that reflect these writers' complex concerns with questions of exile, space, empire, colonization, reception, translation, human subjectivity, and modernist experimentation. By rethinking modernism comparatively and by placing this intricate web of cultural interconnections within an expansive transnational framework, this unique study opens up new perspectives that delineate the construction of a polycentric geography of modernism. It will be of interest to those studying global modernisms, as well as Latin American literature, transatlantic studies, comparative literature, world literature, postcolonial studies, translation studies, and the global south--

• | Author: Patricia Novillo-Corvalan
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Dec 10, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 202 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0367884860
• | ISBN-13: 9780367884864