ISBN:
9783111247861
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (322 p.)
Series Statement:
Mimesis Series v.107
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Hudzik, Agnieszka H Elective Affinities
DDC:
809
Keywords:
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese
;
intellectual networks
;
post-imperial age
;
transareal relations
;
world literature
Abstract:
From the nineteenth century to the present, literary entanglements between Latin America and East Central Europe have been socio-politically and culturally diverse, but never random. The Iron Curtain, in particular, forced both regions to negotiate transatlantic «elective affinities», to take a stance in relation to the West, and to position themselves within world literature. As a result, the intellectual fields and creative productions of these regions have critically engaged with notions such as «post-imperial», «marginal», or «peripheral». In this edited volume, scholars from Germany, Brazil, Czech Republic, Hungary, Mexico, Poland, Slovenia, and Spain cross the globe from South to East and back to uncover transcultural and transareal convivialities. Their papers explore literary history, poetics, intellectual networks, and aesthetic theory, while discussing new key concepts in global literary history
Description / Table of Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I Theory and History of Entanglements -- Repensando la historia, el eurocentrismo y el historicismo desde América Latina -- The Centrality of Latin America and TransArea Studies: Europe, Asia, and the East of the Old World -- II Intellectual Networks and Literary Field -- On the First Stage of the Cultural Cold War in Latin America: The Creation of a Pro-Soviet Network in Mexico -- Intelectuales rioplatenses en países socialistas europeos (1932-1959) -- De ogros y sacrificios humanos: Europa del Este, la libertad y la crítica de autores mexicanos al autoritarismo -- III Authors of Dis/connection -- La Alianza de los Nobel: Notas sobre los viajes de Pablo Neruda y Miguel Ángel Asturias a los países socialistas europeos -- Between the East-Central European Burden of History and the Argentinian "Lightness of Being": Witold Gombrowicz's Representations of Time in Diaristic Practice -- Nomadology: A Philosophy of Migration. Vilém Flusser between Worlds -- IV Images and Imageries on the Move -- Encounters with the Rain God: László Passuth Bridging Distances between Hungary, Mexico, and Spain -- "To Make My Knowledge Be of Use to My Fellow Human Beings": Alma M. Karlin, Peru, and Cultural Agency -- V Crossing Borders, Closing Gaps: Translation -- Entanglements by Translation: Manuel Antonio and Guillermo Matta Goyenechea Affinities for Polish Poetry during the 1850s -- Difundir la literatura polaca en México y la mexicana en Polonia: Sergio Pitol como agente transcultural -- VI Migration and Entangled Memories -- Poles from the Peruvian Montaña: Recollections of Polish Emigration to Peru in the Early 20th Century -- Bom Fim, New Birobidzhan, and Centaurs: Brazilian Author Moacyr Scliar and Jewish Brazil -- VII Contemporary Female Perspectives -- Visegrád -- How to Take Control of the World without Leaving the House: Cuba -- Contributors -- Index
Note:
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