Anti-literature : the politics and limits of representation in modern Brazil and Argentina /

"Anti-Literature articulates a rethinking of what is meant today by "literature." Examining key Latin American forms of experimental writing from the 1920s to the present, Adam Joseph Shellhorse reveals literature's power as a site for radical reflection and reaction to contempor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Shellhorse, Adam Joseph (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]
Series:	Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Subjects:	Lispector, Clarice > Criticism and interpretation. Viñas, David > Criticism and interpretation. Andrade, Oswald de, > 1890-1954 > Criticism and interpretation. Lins, Osman, > 1924-1978 > Criticism and interpretation. Literature > Philosophy. Latin American literature > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Anti-literature
Figurations of immanence: writing the subaltern and the feminine in Clarice Lispector
The letter's limit: anti-literature and politics in David Viñas
Subversions of the sensible: the poetics of antropofagia in Brazilian concrete poetry
The untimely matter of anti-literature: the politics of the Baroque in Haroldo de Campos and Osman Lins
Writing subaltern redemption and insurgency: Haroldo de Campos's "The Left-Winged Angel of History"
Conclusion: The untimely secret of anti-literature.