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

Crystal Crystal Chemris (Person),Megan Milan

The Spanish Baroque and Latin American Literary Modernity: Writing in Constellation
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
19 February 2021
Pages
212
ISBN
9781855663411

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

Crystal Crystal Chemris (Person),Megan Milan

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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