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Specters of the Vanguard
Wed, May 27, 8:00 to 9:45am, TBASession Submission Type: Panel
Abstract
This panel will consider the persistence of the avant-garde as a reference in cultural production in Latin America from 1989 to the present. As dictatorships, neoliberal economic reforms, and an emerging state of exception have remade the representational grounds for avant-garde praxis, Latin American artists and writers continue to interrogate the legacy of the avant-garde, recalling the lives and works of past vanguardistas. We seek to understand the ways in which contemporary artists employ the avant-garde as a meta-aesthetic referent, evoking a modern tradition of aesthetic transgression, even as its original critical force can no longer be assumed.
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Art, Violence, and the Avant-Garde in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 - Travis W Williams, University of Michigan
The Afterlife of Estrangement as Literary Device in Matilde Sánchez’s El desperdicio - Matthew S Johnson, Indiana University
Apocryphal Memory and Displacing the Chronological Past: Reconfigurations of Time in Bolaño’s Amuleto - Tamara L Mitchell, Indiana University
Playing the Game of Fort and Da: The Disappeared in Recent Argentine Cinema - Ali Kulez, University of Southern California
The Infrastructure of Literary Autonomy in the Latin American Present - Brian Whitener, University of Michigan