Description
Book SynopsisA Planetary Avant-Garde explores how experimental poetics and literature networks have aesthetically and politically responded to the legacy of Iberian colonialism across the world. The book examines avant-garde responses to Spanish and Portuguese imperialism across Europe, Latin America, West Africa, and Southeast Asia between 1909 and 1929.
Ignacio Infante critically traces the hegemony and resistance to the colonial regimes of Spain and Portugal across particular avant-garde networks, expanding our understanding of Western colonial and imperial ideologies of the early twentieth century. The book extends geopolitical dimensions of the historical avant-garde into a wider transnational and planetary framework, including divergent experiences of modernity, forms of experimental poetics, and understandings of history. It sheds light on topics, such as the relation between Portuguese futurism and European colonialism in West Africa, the Latin American avant-garde’
Table of Contents
Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Planetary Engagement, the Historical Avant-Garde, and Iberian Colonialism, 1909–1929 1. The Geographies and Temporalities of Futurism: Almada Negreiros, Portuguese Modernismo, and European Colonialism in Africa 2. Placing Vicente Huidobro within the Historical Avant-Garde: Experimental Poetics and the Planetary Critique of European Historicism 3. Away from Montmartre: Blaise Cendrars, Tarsila do Amaral, and the Travel Notes of the Historical Avant-Garde 4. The Specter of Translation: Angela Manalang Gloria, José Garcia Villa, Claro Recto, and the Comparative Poetics of Modernism in the Philippines Coda: Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, Lilly Reich, and the Barcelona World’s Fair of 1929: Experimental Form as Network and the Traditionalist Politics of Empire Notes Bibliography Index
