Surrealism in Latin American literature
Subtitle: searching for Breton's ghost
By: Melanie Nicholson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781137287793
Subjects: Experimental Literature; Spanish American literature; Surrealism (Literature); Avant-garde (Aesthetics); History and criticism; Influence
Description: "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].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.