The Spanish Baroque and Latin American Literary Modernity: Writing in Constellation

Author:   Crystal Crystal Chemris (Person) ,  Megan Milan
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
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9781855663411


Pages:   212
Publication Date:   19 February 2021
Format:   Hardback
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The Spanish Baroque and Latin American Literary Modernity: Writing in Constellation


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This book aims to develop a broader view of the trajectory of Hispanic modernity, tracing a motif of recurring impasse, first seen in peninsular Baroque texts and continuing into Latin American colonial and modern literature. Inspired by Walter Benjamin's notion of constellation, this book draws on theories of Latin American modernity to investigate the Spanish literary Baroque and its repetitions as a historical-cultural predicament in Latin American colonial and modern texts. Inca Garcilaso, Borges, Carpentier, Rulfo, Dario and a range of Latin American ""Post-Symbolist"" poets (Agustini, Pizarnik, Sosa, Lienlaf and Huinao) are juxtaposed with the Lazarillo, the Quijote, Fuenteovejuna and Gongora's Soledades to produce original readings on topics of violence, rape, frustrated pilgrimage, and the truncated ambitions of colonized peoples and confessional minorities. In turn, Benjamin is juxtaposed with Mallarme to recast the aesthetic dynamics of modernity in political terms, in order to understand the Baroque within a more broadly historicized concept of the avant-garde. Generous in scope, this book addresses the community of Spanish and Latin American criticism as well as emerging and pressing theoretical concerns within the field of comparative literature.

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Author:   Crystal Crystal Chemris (Person) ,  Megan Milan
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   Tamesis Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.388kg
ISBN:  

9781855663411


ISBN 10:   1855663414
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   19 February 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

"Introduction: The Baroque, Symbolism and Hispanic Modernity: A Benjaminian Meditation on the Construction of History Góngora and the Colonial Body Politic: Moriscos, Amerindians and Poetry as Protest Violence and ""The Tremulous Private Body"" in Lazarillo de Tormes, Fuenteovejuna, and the Soledades Trauma, Body and Machine in Don Quijote Góngora and Darío in Constellation: On the Poetics of Rape, Colonialism and Modernity Pilgrimage into the Trauma of History: Continuities of Góngora in Carpentier, Rulfo and Vallejo Signposts in a Genealogy of Post-Symbolism in Latin American Poetry Afterward Appendix I: On Mallarmé's ""Un Coup de dés"" Appendix II: The Annales School and Maravall's La cultura del barroco"

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All chapters of the book are meticulously researched and centered on informative close readings. [...] a significant scholarly achievement. * Calíope *


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CRYSTAL ANNE CHEMRIS is Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Virginia and Courtesy Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Oregon. She is author of Góngora's Soledades and the Problem of Modernity (Tamesis, 2008).

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