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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910496149103321
• Autore: Unruh Vicky
• 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.