Gorica Majstorovic is professor of Spanish and coordinator of Latin American and Caribbean studies at Stockton University.

This volume explores avant-garde literature in Latin America in the fertile period between the two world wars. What makes the book valuable is the displacement of its focus: whereas previous studies saw the various Latin American avant-gardes exclusively as outgrowths of European movements, Majstorovic offers a Global South perspective, one of multiple networks of solidarity and artistic and political engagement, and she clarifies the area’s contribution to the establishment of that Global South. Recommended.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1 Avant-Garde and Mexican Petrofiction Chapter 2 Decolonial Modernism: Amauta, Boletín Titikaka, and ZenitChapter 3 Cinematic Montage in Baldomera and Los siete locosChapter 4 Unsettling Travel Narrative: Darío, Henríquez Ureña, Güiraldes, and ArltChapter 5 Improbable Cosmopolitanism and the Global South BibliographyAbout the Author

Gorica Majstorovic is professor of Spanish and coordinator of Latin American and Caribbean studies at Stockton University.

This volume explores avant-garde literature in Latin America in the fertile period between the two world wars. What makes the book valuable is the displacement of its focus: whereas previous studies saw the various Latin American avant-gardes exclusively as outgrowths of European movements, Majstorovic offers a Global South perspective, one of multiple networks of solidarity and artistic and political engagement, and she clarifies the area’s contribution to the establishment of that Global South. Recommended.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1 Avant-Garde and Mexican Petrofiction Chapter 2 Decolonial Modernism: Amauta, Boletín Titikaka, and ZenitChapter 3 Cinematic Montage in Baldomera and Los siete locosChapter 4 Unsettling Travel Narrative: Darío, Henríquez Ureña, Güiraldes, and ArltChapter 5 Improbable Cosmopolitanism and the Global South BibliographyAbout the Author

Gorica Majstorovic is professor of Spanish and coordinator of Latin American and Caribbean studies at Stockton University.

This volume explores avant-garde literature in Latin America in the fertile period between the two world wars. What makes the book valuable is the displacement of its focus: whereas previous studies saw the various Latin American avant-gardes exclusively as outgrowths of European movements, Majstorovic offers a Global South perspective, one of multiple networks of solidarity and artistic and political engagement, and she clarifies the area’s contribution to the establishment of that Global South. Recommended.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1 Avant-Garde and Mexican Petrofiction Chapter 2 Decolonial Modernism: Amauta, Boletín Titikaka, and ZenitChapter 3 Cinematic Montage in Baldomera and Los siete locosChapter 4 Unsettling Travel Narrative: Darío, Henríquez Ureña, Güiraldes, and ArltChapter 5 Improbable Cosmopolitanism and the Global South BibliographyAbout the Author