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Record Nr.

UNINA9910496149103321

Autore

Unruh Vicky

Titolo

Latin American vanguards : the art of contentious encounters / / Vicky Unruh [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 1995

ISBN

0-520-91524-0

0-585-25271-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 315 p. )

Collana

Latin American literature and culture ; ; 11

Disciplina

860.9/98

Soggetti

Latin American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Literature, Experimental - Latin America - History and criticism

Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - Latin America

Latin American literature - History and criticism - 20th century - Latin America

Literature, Experimental - History and criticism - Latin America

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)

Romance Literatures

Languages & Literatures

Spanish Literature

Latin America Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Contentious Encounters in Life and Art -- ; 1. Constructing an Audience, Concrete and Illusory: Manifestos for Performing and Performance Manifestos -- ; 2. Outward Turns of the Vagabond Eye/I: The Vanguards' Portraits of the Artist -- ; 3. "Surely from his lips a cockatoo will fly": The Vanguards' Stories of the New World -- ; 4. On the Interstices of Art and Life: Theatrical Workouts in Critical Perception -- ; 5. From Early Words to the Vernacular Inflection: Vanguard Tales of Linguistic Encounter.

Sommario/riassunto

In this first comprehensive study of Latin America's literary vanguards of the 1920s and 1930s, Vicky Unruh explores the movement's provocative and polemic nature. Latin American vanguardism-a



precursor to the widely acclaimed work of contemporary Latin American writers-was stimulated by the European avant-garde movements of the World War I era. But as Unruh's wide-ranging study attests, the vanguards of Latin America-emerging from the continent's own historical circumstances-developed a very distinct character and voice.Through manifestos, experimental texts, and ribald public performance, the vanguardists' work intertwined art, culture, and the politics of the day to produce a powerful brand of aesthetic activism, one that sparked an entire rethinking of the meaning of art and culture throughout Latin America.