{"product_id":"modernism-and-latin-america-9781138218505","title":"Modernism and Latin America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is the first in-depth exploration of the relationship between Latin American and European modernisms during the long twentieth century. Drawing on comparative, historical, and postcolonial reading strategies (including archival research), it seeks to reenergize the study of modernism by putting the spotlight on the cultural networks and aesthetic dialogues that developed between European and non-European writers, including Pablo Neruda, James Joyce, Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Jorge Luis Borges, Victoria Ocampo, Roberto Bolaño, Julio Cortázar, Samuel Beckett, Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, and Malcolm Lowry. The book explores a wide range of texts that reflect these writers' complex concerns with questions of exile, space, empire, colonization, reception, translation, human subjectivity, and modernist experimentation. By rethinking modernism comparatively and by placing this intricate web of cultural interconnections within an expansive transnational (and transcontinental\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Pablo Neruda’s Transnational Modernist Networks: Colombo-Madrid-London-Buenos Aires \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Empire and Commerce in Latin America: Historicising Virginia Woolf’s \u003cem\u003eThe Voyage Out\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3.\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eWhose Joyce? Whose Modernism? Borges, Bolaño, and the Question of the ‘Ulyssean’ Novel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. The Reluctant Translator:\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eBeckett’s Road to Mexico (via Paz)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. The Politics of Death in Mexico: Manet, Lowry, Bolaño and the Ghost of Emperor Maximilian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoda: Towards Modernist Dialogues in the Global South\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577810489687,"sku":"9781138218505","price":128.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138218505.jpg?v=1746096787","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modernism-and-latin-america-9781138218505","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}