Latin American Vanguards - The Art of Contentious Encounters

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About the author

Vicky Unruh is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of Kansas.

Summary

This text explores Latin American vanguardism's provocative and polemic nature. The movement was stimulated by the European avantgarde movements of the World War I era, but, as this book argues, it developed a very distinct voice and character.

Product details

• Authors: Vicky Unruh, Unruh Vicky
• Assisted by: Vicky Unruh (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.1994
• EAN: 9780520087941
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08794-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Latin American Literature; Latin American Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; South America, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Spanish, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Central America, Mexico and Central America