XII CONGRESSO INTERNACIONAL ABRALIC

XII CONGRESSO INTERNACIONAL ABRALIC

Resumo:1038-1

Oral (Tema Livre)

1038-1	Vanguard Politics, Populist Poetics: ਀刀攀昀氀攀挀琀椀漀渀猀漀渀䄀瘀愀渀琀ⴀ䜀愀爀搀攀䴀愀渀椀昀攀猀琀漀猀椀渀䰀愀琀椀渀䄀洀攀爀椀挀愀
Autores:	Bruno Carvalho (PU - Princeton University)

Resumo

If the manifesto as a genre shifted from the political to the artistic sphere during the beginning of the twentieth century, both would remain intricately connected in Latin America’s vanguard movements of the 1920s and 30s. Several literary figures central to the region’s avant-gardes either founded or joined “radical” political parties, among them Vicente Huidobro, Pablo Neruda, Manuel Maples Arce, Mário de Andrade, Nicolás Guillén, Luís Palés Matos, Arturo Uslar Pietri, Menotti del Picchia and José Carlos Mariátegui, to name but a few. Many of these writers stood on the losing side of electoral or political disputes, not unlike many of their European counterparts. Significant portions of their artistic projects and literary works, nonetheless, were incorporated into “official” national literatures, frequently during regimes opposed by them. How then, we must ask, did Latin American avant-garde writers adapt to shifting political realities that emerged in the wake of their aesthetic innovations? And conversely, how did new political regimes appropriate practices developed by these same avant-gardes? This paper will approach this question through focus on the analysis of intersections between populist discourses, manifestos, and advertisement.

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