Latin American Literature in Transition 1870–1930

This book maps literary trends in Latin America during the period 1870-1930, while considering the global circulation of people and goods.

Fernando Degiovanni (Edited by), Javier Uriarte (Edited by)

9781108838740, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 8 December 2022

350 pages
23.6 x 15.7 x 2.8 cm, 0.7 kg

Latin American Literature in Transition 1870-1930 examines how the circulation of goods, people, and ideas permeated every aspect of the continent's cultural production at the end of the nineteenth century. It analyzes the ways in which rapidly transforming technological and labour conditions contributed to forging new intellectual networks, exploring innovative forms of knowledge, and reimagining the material and immaterial worlds. This volume shows the new directions in turn-of-the-century scholarship that developed over the last two decades by investigating how the experience of capitalism produced an array of works that deal with primitive accumulation, transnational crossings, and an emerging technological and material reality in diverse geographies and a variety of cultural forms. Essays provide a novel understanding of the period as they discuss the ways in which particular commodities, intellectual networks, popular uprisings, materialities, and non-metropolitan locations redefined cultural production at a time when the place of Latin America in global affairs was significantly transformed.

Introduction Fernando Degiovanni and Javier Uriarte
Part I. Commodities: 1. Rubber Alejandro Quin
2. Guano and nitrates Lisa Burner
3. Coffee Benjamin S. Johnson
4. Plantains and bananas Felipe Martínez-Pinzón
5. Sugar Richard Rosa
6. Yerba Jennifer L. French
Part II. Networks: 7. Latin Americanisms Fernando Degiovanni
8. Cosmopolitanisms Gonzalo Aguilar
9. Chinoiseries Rosario Hubert
10. Diasporas Marissa L. Ambio
11. Feminisms Gwen Kirkpatrick
Part III. Uprisings: 12. Anarchisms Rafael Mondragón Velázquez
13. Indigenismos Jorge Coronado
14. Abolitionism Víctor Goldgel-Carballo
15. Rural insurgencies Juan Pablo Dabove
Part IV. Connectors: 16. Money Alejandra Laera
17. Bodies Javier Guerrero
18. Travel Javier Uriarte
19. War Sebastián Díaz-Duhalde
20. Science María del Pilar Blanco
21. Visual Culture Alejandra Uslenghi
Part V. Cities: 22. Iquique, Chile Carl Fischer
23. Manaus, Brazil Sarah J. Townsend
24. San Juan, Puerto Rico Jorge L. Lizardi Pollock
25. Ciudad Juárez-El Paso David Dorado Romo.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]