Modernism and Latin America

<p>This book is the first in-depth exploration of the relationship between Latin American and European modernisms during the long twentieth century. Drawing on comparative historical and postcolonial reading strategies (including archival research) it seeks to reenergize the study of modernism by putting the spotlight on the cultural networks and aesthetic dialogues that developed between European and non-European writers including Pablo Neruda James Joyce Leonard Woolf Virginia Woolf Jorge Luis Borges Victoria Ocampo Roberto Bolaño Julio Cortázar Samuel Beckett Octavio Paz Carlos Fuentes and Malcolm Lowry. The book explores a wide range of texts that reflect these writers’ complex concerns with questions of exile space empire colonization reception translation human subjectivity and modernist experimentation. By rethinking modernism comparatively and by placing this intricate web of cultural interconnections within an expansive transnational (and transcontinental) framework this unique study opens up new perspectives that delineate the construction of a polycentric geography of modernism. It will be of interest to those studying global modernisms as well as Latin American literature transatlantic studies comparative literature world literature translation studies and the global south. </p>