Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
PART I: CONTEXTS AND CONTOURS Surrealism is Dead: Viva el surrealismo The Latin American Connection PART II: THE EMERGENCE OF SURREALISM IN LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1928-1950 Initiations: Aldo Pellegrini and the First Surrealist Group in Argentina Neruda and Anti-Neruda, or the Case of Chile's Mandr gora Poets Peru: The Surrealist Space between Mari tegui and Vallejo The Two Faces of Early Surrealism in Mexico PART III: A SURREALISM OF ONE'S OWN, 1950-1980 The Argentine Surrealist Journals 'Another Ship Must Be Launched': Surrealism in Argentine Poetry, 1950-1970 Chile: The Avatars and the Antagonists of Mandr gora Octavio Paz, Surrealism's Favorite Son
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Charting surrealism in Latin American literature from its initial appearance in Argentina in 1928 to the surrealist-inspired work of several writers in the 1970s, Melanie Nicholson argues that surrealism has exercised a significant and positive influence over twentieth-century Latin American literature, particularly poetry.