@article{1476469,
      note = {Includes index.},
      author = {Mulder, Tavid,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1476469},
      title = {Modernism in the peripheral metropolis : form, crisis and  the city in Latin America /},
      abstract = {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 Jos Carlos Maritegui and Lima; the  novelist Roberto Arlt and Buenos Aires; the novelist  Patrcia Galvo and So 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 regions vast,  underdeveloped hinterlands. Conceiving of modernist  techniques as ways of understanding how the dualisms of  Latin American societiesurban and rural, wealth and  poverty, cosmopolitan and nationalare 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. Tavid Mulder teaches literature and  interdisciplinary studies at Emerson College, US. His work  has appeared in journals such as Revista Hispnica Moderna,  Mediations, Comparative Literature Studies and A  Contracorriente.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34055-0},
      recid = {1476469},
      pages = {1 online resource},
}