Ignacio Infante

A Planetary Avant-Garde

Experimental Literature Networks and the Legacy of Iberian Colonialism

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Produktbeschreibung

This book illuminates the history of experimental poetics in relation to the legacy of Iberian colonialism in the early twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781442629745
• ISBN-10: 1442629746
• Artikelnr.: 66227844

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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