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Rodríguez, Josué Daniel. Spontaneous afterlife: surrealism as translation in Latin American vanguard poetry. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-30sj-q513

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TitleSpontaneous afterlife: surrealism as translation in Latin American vanguard poetry
NameRodríguez, Josué Daniel (author); Bishop, Karen (chair); Schwartz, Marcy (member); Behrmann, Nicola (member); Infante, Ignacio (member); Rutgers University; School of Graduate Studies
Date Created2021
Other Date2021-10 (degree)
SubjectLatin American literature, Translation studies, French literature, Latin American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism, Poets, Latin American -- 20th century, Surrealism (Literature), Latin America, Poetics, Poetry, Translation, Vanguardia, Huidobro, Vicente, 1893-1948, Moro, César, 1903-1956, Girondo, Oliverio, 1891-1967, Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998
Extent1 online resource (v, 241 pages) : illustrations
DescriptionThis dissertation reconsiders the intersection of the Latin American and French surrealist avant-gardes of the early-to-mid 20th century through the lens of translation. I demonstrate that translation — as textual practice, creative method, poetics of craft, and relational ethics — is inextricable from the way avant-garde poets experimented with language, globalized national literatures, and historicized the task of the modernist poet. Across four chapters, I analyze the adaptation of the concepts of the chance encounter, convulsive beauty, the authorial body and the practice of automatic writing in the poetic works of Chilean Vicente Huidobro, Peruvian César Moro, Argentinian Oliverio Girondo, and Mexican Octavio Paz. This study revises the known surrealist canon and calls for a renewed attention to Latin American poets as self-reflective theorists of their global positionality as cultural translators. This challenges the notion of the Latin American avant-gardes as belated by-products of European formalist production; rather, they are contemporaries and innovators of their European counterparts as they refine surrealism’s most translatable nodes beyond the terms that the French movement established.
NotePh.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-30sj-q513
LanguageEnglish
CollectionSchool of Graduate Studies Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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