Surrealism in Latin American Literature [electronic resource] : Searching for Breton's Ghost /
Nicholson, M.author.
Charting surrealism in Latin American literature from its initial appearance in Argentina in 1928 to the surrealist-inspired work of several writers in the 1970s, Melanie Nicholson argues that surrealism has exercised a significant and positive influence over twentieth-century Latin American literature, particularly poetry.
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Cover; Surrealism in Latin American Literature; Surrealism in Latin American Literature: Searching for Breton's Ghost; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: Contexts and Contours; CHAPTER 1: Surrealism Is Dead, ¡Viva el Surrealismo!; Introduction; Defining Features of Surrealist Thought; The Surrealist Text and the Primacy of the Image; The Historical Surrealist Movement: A Very Brief History; CHAPTER 2: The Latin American Connection; Introduction; Latin American Surrealism: A Convoluted Tale; The Communicating Vessels; The Ambivalent Surrealist Gaze of Alejo Carpentier
PART II: The Emergence of Surrealism inLatin American Literature,1928-1950CHAPTER 3: Argentina's Pioneer Surrealists; Introduction; Aldo Pellegrini and the Argentine "Fraternidad Surrealista"; The Little Magazine Que; CHAPTER 4:Neruda and Anti-Neruda: Chile's Mandrágora Poets; Introduction; The Mandrágora Group and "Poesía Negra"; Toward a Reassessment of the Mandrágora Movement; CHAPTER 5: Peru: The Surrealist Space between Mariátegui and Vallejo; Introduction; José Carlos Mariátegui and the Journal Amauta; The Peruvian Surrealists; Vallejo's "Autopsy" of 1930: Was Surrealism Really Dead?
CHAPTER 6: The Two Faces of Early Surrealism in MexicoIntroduction: A Chilly Reception; The Hallucinatory Voyages of Antonin Artaud; Breton in the Land of Waking Dreams; The War Exiles in Mexico; Conclusion; PART III: A Surrealism of One's Own, 1950-1980; CHAPTER 7: The Argentine Surrealist Journals; Introduction; The Surrealist Journals of Buenos Aires; CHAPTER 8: "Another Ship Must Be Launched": Surrealism in Argentine Poetry, 1950-1970; Introduction; Enrique Molina: The Nomad and the Dreamer; Olga Orozco: The Poetics of Danger and Refuge; Alejandra Pizarnik: The Disarticulation of the Self
ConclusionCHAPTER 9: Chile: The Avatars and the Antagonists of La Mandrágora; Introduction; The Crooked Path Forward: Braulio Arenas and Enrique Gómez-Correa; Gonzalo Rojas, Mandrágora's Prodigal Son; Nicanor Parra and the Carnivalization of Surrealism; CHAPTER 10: Octavio Paz: Surrealism's Favorite Son; Introduction; Octavio Paz, Surrealism, and the Magic of the Word; Conclusion; Conclusion: "Like a River"; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Charting surrealism in Latin American literature from its initial appearance in Argentina in 1928 to the surrealist-inspired work of several writers in the 1970s, Melanie Nicholson argues that surrealism has exercised a significant and positive influence over twentieth-century Latin American literature, particularly poetry.
Breton, André, 1896-1966
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Poetry.
Literature   .
Ethnology—Latin America.
America—Literatures.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Latin American Culture.
North American Literature.