1st Edition
Modernism and Latin America Transnational Networks of Literary Exchange
By Patricia Novillo-Corvalán
Copyright 2018
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction
1. Pablo Neruda’s Transnational Modernist Networks: Colombo-Madrid-London-Buenos Aires
2. Empire and Commerce in Latin America: Historicising Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out
3. Whose Joyce? Whose Modernism? Borges, Bolaño, and the Question of the ‘Ulyssean’ Novel
4. The Reluctant Translator: Beckett’s Road to Mexico (via Paz)
5. The Politics of Death in Mexico: Manet, Lowry, Bolaño and the Ghost of Emperor Maximilian
Coda: Towards Modernist Dialogues in the Global South
Biography
Patricia Novillo-Corvalán is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
