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In the spring of , while I was teaching a graduate seminar on Latin American avant-garde poetics, news began to circulate of a novel from  about to appear in English translation, which everyone was therefore rushing to read in the original: Roberto Bolaño's Los detectives salvajes. There was particular excitement among the students in the seminar, because Bolaño's novel was itself about the avant-gardes: specifically, the neo-avant-gardes of the s and their explorations into the historical avant-gardes of the s. For a group studying the experiments ofamong other movements -Mexican estridentismo, this was a sudden and startling encounter with a past yanked into the present; it was as though a ghost had taken a seat at our seminar table . The ghost of the avant-gardes has been going around Latin American literature for some time now: haunting the poetry of the s, the novels of the s, and the criticism of today. It does so trepidatiously, having to navigate various theoretical landmines, most of them planted by writings on the European avant-gardes. Peter Bu ̈rger's enormously influential Theory of the Avant-Garde, for instance, argued that the historical ava

Author

Michelle Clayton

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781108835671

Subjects

Romance, Humanities