Latin American Literature in Transition 1870-1930

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Latin American Literature in Transition 1870-1930 examines how the circulation of goods, people, and ideas permeated every aspect of the continent's cultural production at the end of the nineteenth century. It analyzes the ways in which rapidly transforming technological and labour conditions contributed to forging new intellectual networks, exploring innovative forms of knowledge, and reimagining the material and immaterial worlds. This volume shows the new directions in turn-of-the-century scholarship that developed over the last two decades by investigating how the experience of capitalism produced an array of works that deal with primitive accumulation, transnational crossings, and an emerging technological and material reality in diverse geographies and a variety of cultural forms. Essays provide a novel understanding of the period as they discuss the ways in which particular commodities, intellectual networks, popular uprisings, materialities, and non-metropolitan locations redefined cultural production at a time when the place of Latin America in global affairs was significantly transformed.

Fernando Degiovanni is professor of Latin American, Iberian, and Latino cultures at The Graduate Center, CUNY. His research focuses on issues of nationalism and cosmopolitanism, cultural hegemony, and performance in early twentieth century Argentina. He is the author of Los textos de la patria: Nacionalismo, politicas culturales y canon en Argentina (2007), and Vernacular Latin Americanisms: War, the Market, and the Making of a Discipline (2018). In 2010, he was awarded the IILI's Alfredo Roggiano Prize for Latin American Cultural and Literary Criticism, and in 2019, he received the LASA's Southern Cone Studies Section Award for Best Book in the Humanities. He is the current president of the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI). Javier Uriarte is Associate Professor of Latin American literature at Stony Brook University. His research interests include travel writing, environmental humanities, the Amazon, territorial imagination in Latin America, theories of space and place, war and representation. He has published The Desertmakers: Travel, War, and the State in Latin America (2020), and two co-edited books: Entre el humo y la niebla: Guerra y cultura en America Latina (2016) and Intimate Frontiers: A Literary Geography of the Amazon (2019). The Spanish-language manuscript of The Desertmakers won Uruguay's 2012 National Prize for Literature.