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Author:   Ignacio Infante
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Volume:   81
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781442629745

ISBN 10:   1442629746
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   08 May 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Planetary Engagement, the Historical Avant-Garde, and Iberian Colonialism, 1909–1929  1. The Geographies and Temporalities of Futurism: Almada Negreiros, Portuguese Modernismo, and European Colonialism in Africa 2. Placing Vicente Huidobro within the Historical Avant-Garde: Experimental Poetics and the Planetary Critique of European Historicism 3. Away from Montmartre: Blaise Cendrars, Tarsila do Amaral, and the Travel Notes of the Historical Avant-Garde 4. The Specter of Translation: Angela Manalang Gloria, José Garcia Villa, Claro Recto, and the Comparative Poetics of Modernism in the Philippines Coda: Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, Lilly Reich, and the Barcelona World’s Fair of 1929: Experimental Form as Network and the Traditionalist Politics of Empire Notes Bibliography Index

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Figures most often known to English-speakers as atomistic individuals - Marinetti, Pessoa, Huidobro, Cendrars, Oswald de Andrade, even Mies van der Rohe - here emerge in their interrelatedness and compel new readings of what it meant to desire to be modern in the first third of the twentieth century. - Haun Saussy, University Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago In this lucid and revelatory book, Infante explores formal experiments with engaging the planet by an array of early twentieth-century poets writing in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English. His readings of poetry are subtle and dazzling, as is his attention to the micropolitics of form, location, language, and imperial legacies: between Portugal and Africa, France and Brazil, Chile and Spain, and culminating in the Philippines. A Planetary Avant-Garde will transform our understanding of global modernist networks and the place within them of experimental poetry. - Michelle Clayton, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature, Brown University

"""In this lucid and revelatory book, Infante explores formal experiments with engaging the planet by an array of early twentieth-century poets writing in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English. His readings of poetry are subtle and dazzling, as is his attention to the micropolitics of form, location, language, and imperial legacies: between Portugal and Africa, France and Brazil, Chile and Spain, and culminating in the Philippines. A Planetary Avant-Garde will transform our understanding of global modernist networks and the place within them of experimental poetry.""--Michelle Clayton, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature, Brown University ""Figures most often known to English-speakers as atomistic individuals - Marinetti, Pessoa, Huidobro, Cendrars, Oswald de Andrade, even Mies van der Rohe - here emerge in their interrelatedness and compel new readings of what it meant to desire to be modern in the first third of the twentieth century.""--Haun Saussy, University Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago"

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Ignacio Infante is an associate professor of comparative literature and Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis

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