Latin American Literature in Transition 1930–1980

Table of Contents

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.