Surrealism in Latin American Literature - Searching for Breton''s Ghost

Zusatztext "Nicholson offers an excellent! very useful work that traces a line of surrealist and surrealist-inspired texts in Latin America from 1928 to 1980. Scholarly studies exist of surrealism across various countries! or of poetry or painting alone in a single country (e.g.! Argentina! Mexico). But few (perhaps none) have tried to analyze succinctly in a short work so many decades! countries! and genres." - CHOICE Informationen zum Autor Melanie Nicholson is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Bard College, USA. Klappentext Charting surrealism in Latin American literature from its initial appearance in Argentina in 1928 to the surrealist-inspired work of several writers in the 1970s, Melanie Nicholson argues that surrealism has exercised a significant and positive influence over twentieth-century Latin American literature, particularly poetry. Zusammenfassung Charting surrealism in Latin American literature from its initial appearance in Argentina in 1928 to the surrealist-inspired work of several writers in the 1970s! Melanie Nicholson argues that surrealism has exercised a significant and positive influence over twentieth-century Latin American literature! particularly poetry. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I: CONTEXTS AND CONTOURS Surrealism is Dead: ¡Viva el surrealismo! The Latin American Connection PART II: THE EMERGENCE OF SURREALISM IN LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1928-1950 Initiations: Aldo Pellegrini and the First Surrealist Group in Argentina Neruda and Anti-Neruda, or the Case of Chile's Mandrágora Poets Peru: The Surrealist Space between Mariátegui and Vallejo The Two Faces of Early Surrealism in Mexico PART III: A SURREALISM OF ONE'S OWN, 1950-1980 The Argentine Surrealist Journals 'Another Ship Must Be Launched': Surrealism in Argentine Poetry, 1950-1970 Chile: The Avatars and the Antagonists of Mandrágora Octavio Paz, Surrealism's Favorite Son

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PART I: CONTEXTS AND CONTOURS Surrealism is Dead: ¡Viva el surrealismo! The Latin American Connection PART II: THE EMERGENCE OF SURREALISM IN LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1928-1950 Initiations: Aldo Pellegrini and the First Surrealist Group in Argentina Neruda and Anti-Neruda, or the Case of Chile's Mandrágora Poets Peru: The Surrealist Space between Mariátegui and Vallejo The Two Faces of Early Surrealism in Mexico PART III: A SURREALISM OF ONE'S OWN, 1950-1980 The Argentine Surrealist Journals 'Another Ship Must Be Launched': Surrealism in Argentine Poetry, 1950-1970 Chile: The Avatars and the Antagonists of Mandrágora Octavio Paz, Surrealism's Favorite Son

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"Nicholson offers an excellent, very useful work that traces a line of surrealist and surrealist-inspired texts in Latin America from 1928 to 1980. Scholarly studies exist of surrealism across various countries, or of poetry or painting alone in a single country (e.g., Argentina, Mexico). But few (perhaps none) have tried to analyze succinctly in a short work so many decades, countries, and genres." - CHOICE

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• Authors: M Nicholson, M. Nicholson, Melanie Nicholson, NICHOLSON MELANIE
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.01.2013
• EAN: 9781137287793
• ISBN: 978-1-137-28779-3
• No. of pages: 279
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); B, Literature, Cultural Studies, Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, World Literature, North America (USA and Canada), Poetry and Poetics, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Latin American Culture, Ethnology—Latin America, Palgrave Literature Collection, Postcolonial/World Literature, America—Literatures, North American Literature