Modernism in the Peripheral Metropolis: Form, Crisis and the City in Latin America

This book shows how Latin American writers and artists in the crisis-decades of the 1920s and 1930s...
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Author: Tavid Mulder
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Modernism in the Peripheral Metropolis: Form, Crisis and the City in Latin America by Mulder, Tavid

Modernism in the Peripheral Metropolis: Form, Crisis and the City in Latin America

$407.65

Modernism in the Peripheral Metropolis: Form, Crisis and the City in Latin America

$407.65
Author: Tavid Mulder
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
This book shows how Latin American writers and artists in the crisis-decades of the 1920s and 1930s used modernist techniques to explore national issues in relation to global capitalism. Drawing on a rich interdisciplinary archive of novels, poetry, essays, photography, and architecture, it includes chapters on major figures and the transformations that marked Latin American cities at the beginning of the twentieth century: the poet Manuel Maples Arce and Mexico City; the essayist José Carlos Mariátegui and Lima; the novelist Roberto Arlt and Buenos Aires; the novelist Patrícia Galvão and São Paulo. Tavid Mulder argues that the Latin American city should be understood as a peripheral metropolis: a social space that is simultaneously peripheral relative to the center of the world economy and a metropolis in relation to the region's vast, underdeveloped hinterlands. Conceiving of modernist techniques as ways of understanding how the dualisms of Latin American societies--urban and rural, wealth and poverty, cosmopolitan and national--are bound together by the internal contradictions of capitalism, this volume insists on the ability of literary and artistic works to grasp the process through which untenable situations of crisis are not overcome but stabilized in the periphery. It thereby sheds light on issues in Latin America that have become increasingly urgent in the twenty-first century: inequality, indigenous migration, surplus populations, and anomie.

Author: Tavid Mulder
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 08/29/2023
Pages: 225
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9783031340543

About the Author
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.

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