Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : uncertain beginnings : modern Peruvian realities in permanent formation
  • Landscapes of contradiction : historical and critical perspectives of the Oncenio
  • Brave new world : transformative perspectives in Mariátegui's politics and poetics of revolution
  • Tradition on trial : continuity and change in the Peruvian avant-garde movement
  • Fugitive signs : mapping metaphors and meaning in La casa de carton by Martín Adán
  • A new conception : formative years of a female poetics
  • A female vanguard in Peru : marginality and mediation in the early poetry of Magda Portal.