Latin American Literature in Transition 1930-1980

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.