Title: Surrealism in Latin American literature : searching for Breton's ghost /
Authors: Nicholson, Melanie, 1955-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Breton, André, Influence.; Literature, Experimental Latin America.; Surrealism (Literature) Latin America.; Spanish American literature History and criticism; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Latin America.; Avant-garde (Aesthetics); Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); LITERARY CRITICISM Caribbean & Latin American.; Literature, Experimental; Spanish American literature; Surrealism (Literature)
Abstract: "Charting surrealism in Latin American literature from its inital appearance in Argentina in 1928 to the surrealist-inspired work of several writers in the 1970s, Melanie Nicholson argues that the literary movement exercised a significant and positive influence over twentieth-century Latin American literature, particularly poetry. Within the framework of literary and cultural history, this ... book offers close readings of surrealist texts--many of which appear here for the first time in English translation--and traces the heterodox ways in which Latin American writers, far from merely mimicking French surrealist principles or techniques, fashioned an aesthetic that reflected their distinct individual and cultural realities"--Cover, p. [4].
Contents: Contexts and contours -- The emergence of surrealism in Latin American literature, 1928-1950 -- A surrealism of one's own, 1950-1980.