Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature - Body Articulations

Featuring canonical Spanish American and Brazilian texts of the 1920s and 30s, Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature is an innovative analysis of the body as site of inscription for avant-garde objectives such as originality, subjectivity, and subversion.

List of contents

Articulating the Body Body, Language, and the Limits of Ontology Language Immersion: Return to the Original Tongue The Body Politic: Immediate Breakdown, Renewal Deferred Anthropophagy, Legacy of a Body Aesthetics

About the author

Bruce Dean Willis is an associate professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at University of Tulsa.

Summary

Featuring canonical Spanish American and Brazilian texts of the 1920s and 30s, Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature is an innovative analysis of the body as site of inscription for avant-garde objectives such as originality, subjectivity, and subversion.

Product details

• Authors: B Willis, B. Willis
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.12.2015
• EAN: 9781349443635
• ISBN: 978-1-349-44363-5
• No. of pages: 245
• Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures; New Concepts in Latino America; New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; B, Literature, Literature: history & criticism, Language: reference & general, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, World Literature, Romance, Italic & Rhaeto-Romanic languages, Romance, Italic and Rhaeto-Romanic languages, Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Latin American Culture, Ethnology—Latin America, Postcolonial/World Literature, America—Literatures, North American Literature, Romance Languages, African Languages, America;Amerikanische Literatur;media