The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America

by Fernando J. Rosenberg

Book Overview

The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America examines the canonical Latin American avant-garde texts of the 1920s and 1930s in novels, travel writing, journalism, and poetry, and presents them in a new light as formulators of modern Western culture and precursors of global culture. Particular focus is placed on the work of Roberto Arlt and M-rio de Andrade as exemplars of the movement. Fernando J. Rosenberg provides a theoretical historiography...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082295916X
• ISBN13: 9780822959168
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"