Latin American Literature in Transition 1930-1980: Volume 4

Amanda Holmes is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at McGill University. She has written extensively on Latin American cultures. Her publications include City Fictions: Language, Body and Spanish American Urban Space (2007), Politics of Architecture in Contemporary Argentine Cinema (2017), and Cultures of the City: Mediating Identities in Urban Latin/o America, co-edited with Richard Young (2010). Par Kumaraswami is Professor of Latin American Studies and Director of the Centre for Research on Cuba/Cuba Research Forum at the University of Nottingham. Her publications include Literary Culture in Cuba: Revolution, Nation-Building and the Book (with Antoni Kapcia, 2012) and The Social Life of Literature in Revolutionary Cuba: Narrative, Identity and Well-being (2016).

• I. War, Revolution, Dictatorship: 1. Revolutions and Literary Transitions: the 1960s Jorge Fornet; 2. Jorge Luis Borges: Probing the Limits of World War Kate Jenckes; 3. Antifascism and Literature in Brazil: The Many Wars of Antônio Callado Daniel Mandur Thomaz; 4. Disaster Innovation in the Mid-Century Spanish-American Novel: Carpentier, Asturias, Donoso Stephen Henighan; 5. Struggle at the Margins: The Intersections of Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Brazil's Literature of Revolution Rebecca Atencio; II. Metropolis and Ruins: 6. Economic, Political and Ecological Disasters: The Metropolis and its Ruins in Latin American Poetry in the 1960s and 1970s Cecilia Enjuto Rangel; 7. Mexican-Miracle Modernism Ignacio Sánchez Prado; 8. Crime and the City: A Critical Walk through Latin American Crime Fiction and Urban Places Emilio J. Gallardo; III. Solidarity: 9. 'Dar testimonio' as a Form of Solidarity and a Lens for Rethinking the Mexican Literary Canon Sarah Bowskill; 10. Landscapes of Heterogeneity in a Mid-Twentieth Century Quechua Poem Charles Pigott; 11. Beyond the Nation Frame: Rethinking the Presence of Indigenous Literatures in the Spanish-American Novel circa 1950 Estelle Tarica; 12. Femininity in Flux: Gabriela Mistral's Madwomen Amanda Holmes; 13. The Representation of Afro-Cuban Orality by Fernando Ortiz, Lydia Cabrera and Nicolás Guillén Miguel Arnedo Gómez; IV. Aesthetics and Innovation: 14. Eros: After Surrealism and Before the Revolution (1945-1967) Sarah Ann Wells; 15. Alejo Carpentier: Some Brief Bio-Bibliographical Notes Rafael Rodríguez Beltrán and The Return of the Galleons: Transitions in the Work of Alejo Carpentier Graziella Pogolotti; 16. 'Un híbrido de halcón y jicotea.' Testimonio and its Challenge to the Latin American Literary Canon Par Kumaraswami; 17. Literature and Revolution in Transition: An Aesthetics of Singularity Bruno Bosteels; 18. Confluence and Divergence: Avant-garde Poetics in Twentieth-Century Spanish America and Brazil Odile Cisneros; 19. Cortázar's Transitional Poetics: Experiments in Verse behind Experiments in Prose Marcy Schwarz.

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