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Using theoretical, philosophical, cultural, political, and historical analysis, this book views the myriad factors that have both formed and stifled the integration of peripheral experiences into Latin American literature.

In the early part of the twentieth century, Buenos Aires erupted from its colonial past as a city in its own right, expressing a unique and vibrant cultural identity. This title explores the changes of 1900-1930, with an aim to capture this culture in motion through which Buenos Aires transformed itself into a modern, cosmopolitan city.

Provides an original perspective on Faulkner, examining his work in the transnational context of the ""Global South"". This work raises new questions as to the scope and attitude of Faulkner's project, positioning Faulkner's work as an inherent critique of colonialism and emphasizing a more specific conceptualization of coloniality.

Historicizing the thought of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and the actions taken in the Haitian Revolution, this work examines the startling connections between the two and challenges us to widen the boundaries of our historical imagination.

This volume presents new perspectives on how comics on and from Latin America both view and express memory formation on major historical events and processes.

Rosenberg explores Latin American artistic production concerned with the possibility of justice after the establishment, rise, and ebb of the human rights narrative around the turn of the last century.

Traces the production of nationalist imaginaries through the public visual representation of modern state formation in Brazil and Argentina. The purpose of these imaginaries was to vindicate political upheavals and secure the viability of the newly independent states through a sense of historic destiny and inevitable evolution. The visions of national heritage, territory, and social and ethnic composition were conceived in a complex interplay between government, cultural and scientific institutions, as a means of propagating political agendas and power throughout the emerging states.

Examines the Latin American avant-garde texts of the 1920s and 1930s in novels, travel writing, journalism, and poetry, and presents them in a different light as formulators of modern Western culture and precursors of global culture. This book places particular focus on the work of Roberto Arlt and Mario de Andrade as exemplars of the movement.