Modernism in the Peripheral Metropolis

Tavid Mulder teaches literature and interdisciplinary studies at Emerson College, US. His work has appeared in journals such as Revista Hispánica Moderna, Mediations, Comparative Literature Studies and A Contracorriente.

• 1. Album or Book?: Form and Content of the Peripheral Metropolis.- 2. “Outline of Civilization”: Maples Arce, O’Gorman, Modotti, and the Limits of the Mexican Revolution.- 3. “Facet by Facet”: José Carlos Mariátegui’s Politics of the Modernist Essay.- 4. “The Century of Phrases”: Roberto Arlt’s Negative Dialectic of Belief and Distrust.- 5. “There’s Only One Crisis. The Sexual Crisis”: Modernist Dissociation and the Reserve Army in Patrícia Galvão’s Parque Industrial.- 6. Conclusion: The Peripheralization of the Metropolis