Crystal Crystal Chemris

The Spanish Baroque and Latin American Literary Modernity (eBook, ePUB)

Writing in Constellation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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, Darío and a range of Latin American "Post-Symbolist" poets (Agustini, Pizarnik, Sosa, Lienlaf and Huinao) are juxtaposed with the Lazarillo, the Quijote, Fuenteovejuna and Góngora'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 Mallarmé 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800101258
• Artikelnr.: 61247875

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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