"Absolutely Modern": The Uses of Oscar Wilde in Latin American Literature and Culture (I)

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

This two-session panel proposes the first study of Oscar Wilde’s impact on Latin American artistic, cultural, and political thought. Wilde was widely read in Latin America from the fin de siècle onwards, and his persona, writing, and thought shaped not only the region’s poetics, but also its public discourses and evolving identity. Wilde is now chiefly remembered in Latin America less as a writer than as a celebrity; still, traces of his thought remain in the region’s artistic, cultural and political spheres. Our panel will seek to reconstruct readings and deployments of Wilde throughout Latin America in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Sub Track

• Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Session Organizers

• Ana Rodriguez Navas, Loyola University Chicago

• Nathalie Bouzaglo, Northwestern University

Chair

• Ana Rodriguez Navas, Loyola University Chicago

Individual Presentations

• Traducciones adulteradas: Guillermo Valencia y Bernardo Arias Trujillo en disputa - Nathalie Bouzaglo, Northwestern University

• Perversión y pensamiento: La Generación del Ateneo y el magisterio crítico wildeano - Brais D Outes-Leon, Queens College, CUNY

• Reimagining the Victorian Era: The Wildes in the Global South - Martin Ponti, Loyola University Chicago

• Casa de citas - Javier Guerrero, Princeton University

Discussant

• Graciela R Montaldo, Columbia University