Modernism in the peripheral metropolis : form, crisis and the city in Latin America / Tavid Mulder.
Mulder, Tavid, author.
2023
PQ6073.M6 M85 2023
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Title Modernism in the peripheral metropolis : form, crisis and the city in Latin America / Tavid Mulder.
Author Mulder, Tavid, author.
ISBN 9783031340550 (electronic bk.)
3031340558 (electronic bk.)
303134054X
9783031340543
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34055-0
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-34055-0 doi
Call Number PQ6073.M6 M85 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 860.9358209732
Summary 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.
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Series New comparisons in world literature.
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Intro
Acknowledgments
Contents
Chapter 1: Album or Book?: Form and Content of the Peripheral Metropolis
Latin American Modernism in the Context of a "Collapsing Social Edifice"
The (Peripheral) Metropolis, the (Uneven) Seat of the Money Economy
"Dissonance Is the Truth About Harmony" : Modernist Realism
Bibliography
Chapter 2: "Outline of Civilization": Maples Arce, O'Gorman, Modotti, and the Limits of the Mexican Revolution
"Axeblows of Silence" in Maples Arce's Urbe
Interlude: Mexico City and the Revolution

O'Gorman's Functionalism: Does (Aesthetic) Form Follow (Capitalist) Function?
The Form of Social Production, or Modotti's Modernist Photography
Bibliography
Chapter 3: "Facet by Facet": José Carlos Mariátegui's Politics of the Modernist Essay
The Essay and Inorganic Form
Piecing Together the City and the Country
The Eighth Essay, or the Politics of the Inorganic
Bibliography
Chapter 4: "The Century of Phrases": Roberto Arlt's Negative Dialectic of Belief and Distrust
The Astrologer as "Neutral Man": Cynicism and Madness
Porteño Misery, or the Reductive City

The Infringement Is the Norm
The Norm Is an Infringement
Bibliography
Chapter 5: "There's Only One Crisis. The Sexual Crisis": Modernist Dissociation and the Reserve Army in Patrícia Galvão's Parque Industrial
São Paulo and Galvão's Relevance, Highs and Lows
There Is No Sexual Revolution
The Auto-Cannibalism of Peripheral Capitalism
Bibliography
Chapter 6: Conclusion: The Peripheralization of the Metropolis
Bibliography
Index

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