Latin American Literature in Transition 1870–1930

This book maps literary trends in Latin America during the period 1870-1930, while considering the global circulation of people and goods.

This book gives a panoramic view of the Latin American cultural production during the period 1870-1930 from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective, with an emphasis on the role that capital and global circulation of people and goods played in the Latin American cultural production of the period 1870-1930.Latin American Literature in Transition 1870-1930 examines how the circulation of goods, people, and ideas permeated every aspect of the continent's cultural production at the end of the nineteenth century. It analyzes the ways in which rapidly transforming technological and labour conditions contributed to forging new intellectual networks, exploring innovative forms of knowledge, and reimagining the material and immaterial worlds. This volume shows the new directions in turn-of-the-century scholarship that developed over the last two decades by investigating how the experience of capitalism produced an array of works that deal with primitive accumulation, transnational crossings, and an emerging technological and material reality in diverse geographies and a variety of cultural forms. Essays provide a novel understanding of the period as they discuss the ways in which particular commodities, intellectual networks, popular uprisings, materialities, and non-metropolitan locations redefined cultural production at a time when the place of Latin America in global affairs was significantly transformed.