Anti-Literature articulates a rethinking of what is meant today by "literature." Examining key Latin American forms of experimental writing from the 1920s to the present, Adam Joseph Shellhorse reveals literature's power as a site for radical reflection and reaction to contemporary political and cultural conditions. His analysis engages the work of writers such as Clarice Lispector, Oswald de Andrade, the Brazilian concrete poets, Osman Lins, and David Vinas, to develop a theory of anti-literature that posits the feminine, multimedial, and subaltern as central to the undoing of what is...
Anti-Literature articulates a rethinking of what is meant today by "literature." Examining key Latin American forms of experimental writing fro...
