Imagined avant-gardes in Latin American literature: a posthegemonic outlook
| Dates: | 14 October 2020 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 17:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Speaker: | Rodrigo López Martínez, |
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This presentation traces the presence of fictional avant-garde artists in Latin American literary works from the 1970s onwards, aiming to redefine the notion of a Latin American avant-garde itself. In this vein, imagined avant-gardes are understood as literary artifacts that, from their distinctive fictional status, interrogate the position of arts and writers amidst specific socio-historical coordinates. By adopting Jon Beasley-Murray’s theoretical framework of posthegemony, three specific instances of fictional avant-gardes will be addressed. Julio Cortázar’s Libro de Manuel (1973), Roberto Bolaño’s Los detectives salvajes (1998) and Mónica Ojeda's La desfiguración Silva (2015) fictionalize avant-gardes in order to reclaim an immanent outlook on the ever-present question of linking arts and politics.
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/98686126678
Meeting ID: 986 8612 6678
Passcode: 614924
Speakers
Rodrigo López Martínez
Role: PhD Candidate
Organisation: University of Manchester
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