Modernism and Latin America: Transnational Networks of Literary Exchange

ISBN-13: 9780367884864 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 190 str.

Patricia Novillo-Corvalan

Opis

This book draws on comparative, historical, and postcolonial reading strategies, focusing on the cultural networks and aesthetic dialogues that developed between European and non-European writers. It explores texts concerned with exile, space, empire, colonization, reception, translation, human subjectivity, and modernist exp

Spis treści

Introduction　

1. Pablo Neruda’s Transnational Modernist Networks: Colombo-Madrid-London-Buenos Aires　

2. Empire and Commerce in Latin America: Historicising Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

3. Whose Joyce? Whose Modernism? Borges, Bolaño, and the Question of the ‘Ulyssean’ Novel

4. The Reluctant Translator: Beckett’s Road to Mexico (via Paz)

5. The Politics of Death in Mexico: Manet, Lowry, Bolaño and the Ghost of Emperor Maximilian

Coda: Towards Modernist Dialogues in the Global South

O autorze

Patricia Novillo-Corvalán is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.