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OverviewAn unstructured genre that blends high aesthetic standards with nonfiction commentary, the journalistic cronica, or chronicle, has played a vital role in Latin American urban life since the nineteenth century. Drawing on extensive archival research, Viviane Mahieux delivers new testimony on how chroniclers engaged with modernity in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, and Sao Paulo during the 1920s and 1930s, a time when avant-garde movements transformed writers' and readers' conceptions of literature. Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America: The Shared Intimacy of Everyday Life examines the work of extraordinary raconteurs Salvador Novo, Cube Bonifant, Roberto Arlt, Alfonsina Storni, and Mario de Andrade, restoring the original newspaper contexts in which their articles first emerged. Each of these writers guided their readers through a constantly changing cityscape and advised them on matters of cultural taste, using their ties to journalism and their participation in urban practice to share accessible wisdom and establish their role as intellectual arbiters. The intimate ties they developed with their audience fostered a permeable concept of literature that would pave the way for overtly politically engaged chroniclers of the 1960s and 1970s. Providing comparative analysis as well as reflection on the evolution of this important genre, Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America is the first systematic study of the Latin American writers who forged a new reading public in the early twentieth century. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Viviane MahieuxPublisher: University of Texas Press Imprint: University of Texas Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.539kg ISBN: 9780292726697ISBN 10: 0292726694 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 01 December 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock  Table of ContentsAbbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Cities, Publics, and Urban Chroniclers in Latin America: 1920s-1930s Chapter 2. A Common Citizen Writes Buenos Aires: Roberto Arlt's Aguafuertes portenas Chapter 3. Taking Readers for a Ride: Mario de Andrade's Taxi Chapter 4. The Chronicler as Streetwalker: Salvador Novo Performs Genre Chapter 5. Overstepping Femininity: The Chronicle and Gender Norms Afterword Appendices: Five Chronicles in Translation, translated by Jacinto R. Fombona 1. Corrientes, at Night, by Roberto Arlt 2. The Cult of Statues, by Mario de Andrade 3. On the Advantages of Not Being Fashionable, by Salvador Novo 4. The Perfect Typist, by Alfonsina Storni 5. Long Hair and Short Ideas, by Cube Bonifant Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsUrban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America offers to its readers an insightful approach to the avant-garde period that sheds light on a genre intrinsically urban and dialogic. Furthermore, Mahieux presents her arguments in a clear and convincing way, and an informed reader will certainly appreciate this book. If you are interested in Latin American avant-garde culture, urban chronicles or journalistic writing, I invite you to consult this book that deals with an important period in the cultural history of this region.--Anadeli Bencomo, University of Houston Revista de Estudios Hispanicos (03/01/2013) Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America offers to its readers an insightful approach to the avant-garde period that sheds light on a genre intrinsically urban and dialogic. Furthermore, Mahieux presents her arguments in a clear and convincing way, and an informed reader will certainly appreciate this book. If you are interested in Latin American avant-garde culture, urban chronicles or journalistic writing, I invite you to consult this book that deals with an important period in the cultural history of this region. -- Anadeli Bencomo, University of Houston Revista de Estudios Hispanicos Author InformationViviane Mahieux is Director of the Latin American and Latino Studies Institute and Assistant Professor of Spanish at Fordham University. She teaches and writes on modern and contemporary Latin American literature, with a particular focus on Mexico. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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