Latin American Literature in Transition 1930–1980: Volume 4

The book explores transitions in Latin American literature to demonstrate the dynamism of literature and politics in the mid-twentieth century.

Amanda Holmes (Edited by), Par Kumaraswami (Edited by)

9781009177764, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 8 December 2022

350 pages
23.6 x 15.7 x 2.5 cm, 0.65 kg

Latin American Literature in Transition 1930-1980 explores the literary landscape of the mid-twentieth-century and the texts that were produced during that period. It takes four core areas of thematic and conceptual focus – solidarity, aesthetics and innovation, war, revolution and dictatorship, metropolis and ruins – and employs them to explore the complexity, heterogeneity and hybridity of form, genre, subject matter and discipline that characterised literature from the period. In doing so, it uncovers the points of transition, connection, contradiction, and tension that shaped the work of many canonical and non-canonical authors. It illuminates the conversations between genres, literary movements, disciplines and modes of representation that underpin writing form this period. Lastly, by focusing on canon and beyond, the volume visibilizes the aesthetics, poetics, politics, and social projects of writing, incorporating established writers, but also writers whose work is yet to be examined in all its complexity.

I. War, Revolution, Dictatorship: 1. Revolutions and Literary Transitions: the 1960s Jorge Fornet
2. Jorge Luis Borges: Probing the Limits of World War Kate Jenckes
3. Antifascism and Literature in Brazil: The Many Wars of Antônio Callado Daniel Mandur Thomaz
4. Disaster Innovation in the Mid-Century Spanish-American Novel: Carpentier, Asturias, Donoso Stephen Henighan
5. Struggle at the Margins: The Intersections of Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Brazil's Literature of Revolution Rebecca Atencio
II. Metropolis and Ruins: 6. Economic, Political and Ecological Disasters: The Metropolis and its Ruins in Latin American Poetry in the 1960s and 1970s Cecilia Enjuto Rangel
7. Mexican-Miracle Modernism Ignacio Sánchez Prado
8. Crime and the City: A Critical Walk through Latin American Crime Fiction and Urban Places Emilio J. Gallardo
III. Solidarity: 9. 'Dar testimonio' as a Form of Solidarity and a Lens for Rethinking the Mexican Literary Canon Sarah Bowskill
10. Landscapes of Heterogeneity in a Mid-Twentieth Century Quechua Poem Charles Pigott
11. Beyond the Nation Frame: Rethinking the Presence of Indigenous Literatures in the Spanish-American Novel circa 1950 Estelle Tarica
12. Femininity in Flux: Gabriela Mistral's Madwomen Amanda Holmes
13. The Representation of Afro-Cuban Orality by Fernando Ortiz, Lydia Cabrera and Nicolás Guillén Miguel Arnedo Gómez
IV. Aesthetics and Innovation: 14. Eros: After Surrealism and Before the Revolution (1945-1967) Sarah Ann Wells
15. Alejo Carpentier: Some Brief Bio-Bibliographical Notes Rafael Rodríguez Beltrán and The Return of the Galleons: Transitions in the Work of Alejo Carpentier Graziella Pogolotti
16. 'Un híbrido de halcón y jicotea.' Testimonio and its Challenge to the Latin American Literary Canon Par Kumaraswami
17. Literature and Revolution in Transition: An Aesthetics of Singularity Bruno Bosteels
18. Confluence and Divergence: Avant-garde Poetics in Twentieth-Century Spanish America and Brazil Odile Cisneros
19. Cortázar's Transitional Poetics: Experiments in Verse behind Experiments in Prose Marcy Schwarz.

Subject Areas: Literary reference works [DSR], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH]