By Adam Joseph Shellhorse

Anti-Literature articulates a rethinking of what's intended this present day via “literature.” studying key Latin American varieties of experimental writing from the Nineteen Twenties to the current, Adam Joseph Shellhorse unearths literature’s energy as a website for radical mirrored image and response to modern political and cultural stipulations. His research engages the paintings of writers reminiscent of Clarice Lispector, Oswald de Andrade, the Brazilian concrete poets, Osman Lins, and David Viñas, to advance a idea of anti-literature that posits the female, multimedial, and subaltern as significant to the undoing of what's intended through “literature.”

By putting Brazilian and Argentine anti-literature on the crux of a brand new mind set in regards to the box, Shellhorse demanding situations triumphing discussions in regards to the historic projection and demanding strength of Latin American literature. analyzing a various array of texts and media that come with the visible arts, concrete poetry, movie scripts, popular culture, neo-baroque narrative, and others that defy style, Shellhorse delineates the subversive strength of anti-literary modes of writing whereas additionally attractive present debates in Latin American reviews on subalternity, female writing, posthegemony, concretism, have an effect on, marranismo, and the politics of aesthetics.

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