Featuring canonical Spanish American and Brazilian texts of the 1920s and 30s, Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature is an innovative analysis of the body as site of inscription for avant-garde objectives such as originality, subjectivity, and subversion. Guided by close attention to socio-historical contexts and mythical sources, the study illuminates aspects such as the relationship between synecdoche and the body politic, the corporeal and linguistic effects of immersion in the return to language origin, and the quest for new frontiers in poetic ontologies. Unpacking the vanguard body legacy, this insightful anatomy will be of interest to scholars of the avant-garde, body theory, and Latin American comparative literature.
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| Introduction: Articulating the Body |
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1 Body, Language, and the Limits of Ontology |
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A Streetcar Named Despair: Urban Bodies in Girondo's Buenos Aires and Mario's Sao Paulo |
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Altazor: A New Arrangement |
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31 | (22) |
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Bed, Bath, and the Great Beyond: Remodeling Desire with Manuel Bandeira |
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53 | (14) |
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Sites of Resistance: Trindade's Palmares and the Afro-Brazilian Body |
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67 | (11) |
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78 | (3) |
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2 Language Immersion: Return to the Original Tongue |
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81 | (48) |
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On the Threshold of Speech in Las Memories de Mama Blanca |
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85 | (11) |
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On the Lips of Language Loss in Macunaima |
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96 | (15) |
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Language and Ontology in Leyendas de Guatemala |
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111 | (12) |
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123 | (6) |
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3 The Body Politic: Immediate Breakdown, Renewal Deferred |
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129 | (36) |
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Embodiment of the Class Struggle in Parque Industrial |
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134 | (9) |
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Huasipungo as Oppressed Collectivity |
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143 | (6) |
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The Ardent Earth-Woman in Aluvion de fuego |
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149 | (9) |
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Rot to Redemption: The Spirit Politic |
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158 | (7) |
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Conclusion: Anthropophagy, Legacy of a Body Aesthetics |
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165 | (18) |
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165 | (1) |
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The Cannibal at Work: What's on the Menu at Churrascaria Oswald |
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166 | (11) |
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Legacy of a Body Aesthetics |
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177 | (6) |
| Notes |
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183 | (22) |
| Works Cited |
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| Index |
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Bruce Dean Willis is an associate professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at University of Tulsa.
