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Global Modernists on Modernism
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Alys Moody, Stephen J. Ross, Alys Moody, Stephen J. Ross
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Global Modernists on Modernism
An Anthology
Alys Moody, Stephen J. Ross, Alys Moody, Stephen J. Ross
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Winner of the Modernist Studies Association (MSA) Edited Volume Prize Bringing together works by writers from sub-Saharan Africa, Turkey, central Europe, the Muslim world, Asia, South America and Australia â many translated into English for the first time â this is the first collection of statements on modernism by writers, artists and practitioners from across the world. Annotated throughout, the texts are supported by critical essays from leading modernist scholars exploring major issues in the contemporary study of global modernism. Global Modernists on Modernism is an essential resource for students and scholars of modernism and world literature and one that opens up a dazzling new array of perspectives on the field.
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CHAPTER ONE
Modernism in Latin America
One of the first problems when talking about modernism in Latin America is terminological: depending on the context, the Spanish and Portuguese term modernismo can refer to two very distinct moments of cultural production in the region. In Spanish America, modernismo refers to a fin de siĂšcle literary movement spearheaded by Nicaraguan poet RubĂ©n DarĂo and characterized by its engagement with European Parnassianism and Symbolism. In the Brazilian context, however, modernismo designates the period of fervent artistic innovation that emerged out of the groundbreaking SĂŁo Paulo Week of Modern Art of 1922. Within these same early decades of the twentieth century, we see a comparable moment of cultural innovation develop in Spanish America, but taking into account the extent to which these writers and artists were directly working against the perceived excesses and Europhilia of Spanish-American modernismo, the term âvanguardâ is preferred among practitioners of the time and in subsequent scholarly accounts. The works of Spanish-American vanguardism and Brazilian modernismo most closely align with modernism as understood within the English-speaking world. I will therefore use the terms modernism and modernist (alongside vanguard and avant-garde) in their English usage to refer to the period of cultural production of both Spanish America and Brazil in the early part of the twentieth century.
These modernist movements flourished in Latin Americaâs major citiesâMexico City, Buenos Aires, SĂŁo Paulo, Lima, and Havanaâpredominantly between 1920 and 1945. This historical moment saw issues of national identity take center stage within both the political and artistic spheres of Latin America, with widespread efforts being made to identify and consolidate unique national, and also continental, forms of cultural expression. There are three key historical developments that provoked this particular moment of revived interest in national and continental cultural identity: (1) the Spanish-American War (1898), which marked the loss of the final Spanish colonies in the region and the intensification of direct US intervention in Latin America; (2) the independence centenaries, between 1910 and 1920, for the majority of Spanish American nations (1922, the year of the SĂŁo Paulo Week of Modern Art, marked the centenary of independence in Brazil); (3) the Mexican Revolution (1910â17) and the shockwaves it sent through the entire continent. These three developments contextualize the extent to which artistic renewal within the region responded to liberation from colonial influence and other forms of oligarchic rule.
The renewal of artistic identity during this time of political fervor therefore entailed a distancing from, or rejection of, European cultural modelsâeven if only in word and not in deed. At the same time, during this period technologies of modernity (rapid advancements in mass mechanical reproduction, communication, and transport) enabled the wider dissemination of ideas of the European avant-garde within Latin America. These technologies also allowed for unprecedented mobility of both people and ideas within the American continent itself, contributing to a certain commonality in major artistic trends and developments stretching from north to south, particularly notions of indigenism and Pan-Americanism. A pertinent example from this period of artistic experimentation and continental interchange is the 1926 Ăndice de la nueva poesĂa americana. Co-edited by the Peruvian Alberto Hidalgo, the Argentine Jorge Luis Borges, and the Chilean Vicente Huidobro, this collection was among the first anthologies to offer an overview of vanguard production across the Spanish-American region, and is typical of efforts to unite artistic output in a common transnational project.
A dominant preoccupation of modernist activities across Latin America is how to account for and incorporate European and US cultural trends while asserting a singular, autochthonous form of expression. Isolating this singular voice takes on distinct forms throughout the nations of this diverse region. As with Anglo-Irish modernism, 1922 was a crucial year for Latin American modernism, one which marked the publication of four seminal volumes of poetry across the region: CĂ©sar Vallejoâs Trilce (Peru), Gabriela Mistralâs Desolation (Chile), Oliverio Girondoâs Twenty Poems to Be Read on the Streetcar (Argentina), and Manuel Maples Arceâs Inner Scaffolds (Mexico), with Borgesâs Fervor of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Pablo Nerudaâs Crepusculario (Chile) both appearing early the following year. Central to this year of fervent vanguard activity was the SĂŁo Paulo Week of Modern Art, the first exhibition of its kind in the continent. Akin in status to the Armory Show held in New York nine years earlier, the SĂŁo Paulo Week of Modern Art consisted of exhibitions of works by experimental plastic artists, alongside avant-garde poetry readings, musical performances, and lectures on modern art. The event was predominantly received with horror, confusion, and ridicule by the public and press, but its impact irrevocably shaped the development of Latin American artistic expression and cemented Brazilâs position at the center of modernist expression in the region.
In the wake of the revolution, Mexican writers and artists embarked on a Janus-faced project to create a strikingly modern and forward-looking Mexico that was at the same time rooted in its indigenous, pre-Columbian history; the country was, in the words of Carlos Fuentes, âcaptured between its native impulses, the Zapata syndrome, and its modernizing impulses, the Ford syndrome.â1 This dynamic tension is encapsulated in the works of painters such as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. Riveraâs The Liberated Earth with the Natural Forces Controlled by Man (1926) and Kahloâs Self-Portrait on the Borderline between Mexico and the United States (1932), with their overt use of both indigenous and mechanical symbolism (synthesized in the work of Rivera and placed in opposition in the case of Kahlo), are indicative examples of the dualism at the heart of much Mexican modernism. The oscillation between autochthonous and cosmopolitan concerns is likewise present in the two key literary groups of the age: the Estridentistas (with whom Rivera was briefly associated) and the ContemporĂĄneos. Within the Peruvian context we see a comparable preoccupation with incorporating the countryâs prominent indigenous heritage into a burgeoning avant-garde movement. As with post-Revolutionary Mexico, Peruvian modernism was characterized by its socialist inflections. Spearheaded by JosĂ© Carlos MariĂĄtegui (considered Latin Americaâs first Marxist theorist), the aims of Peruâs vanguard can be traced through the program of its key publication, Amauta, founded by MariĂĄtegui in 1926. Though defined by its explicit socialist concerns, this modernist magazine attempted to strike a balance between local political struggles, internationalism and innovations in the arts. The defining aims of Amauta can be characterized as the following: the revalorization of Peruâs indigenous heritage; the establishment of a dialogue between previous generations and emerging writers; and the promotion of three key vanguard practitioners: Carlos Oquendo de Amat (Five Meters of Poems, 1927), MartĂn AdĂĄn (âanti-sonnetsâ and novel The Cardboard House, 1928), and the Surrealist poet and painter CĂ©sar Moro. Surrealism took a dominant position within the Amauta group and represented for MariĂĄtegui a method for humanity to escape subordination. Amauta is also notable for the active presence of Peruvian women writers in its vanguard activities, most notably poet Magda Portal (represented in this anthology) and cultural critic MarĂa Wiesse.
In Cubaâanother center of modernist developmentsâthe emphasis fell on capturing a vernacular form of expression particular to the Hispanic Caribbean. Central to these efforts was the Grupo Minorista de La Habana, a group formed in Havana in 1923 that defined itself as âa movement of purification and renovation as much socio-political as literary and artistic.â2 Inflected with Afro-Cuban cadences and bringing to the fore the legacy of African music, dance, and cosmogonies in the Caribbean, poet NicolĂĄs GuillĂ©nâs SĂłngoro Cosongo (1931) and novelist Alejo Carpentierâs ÂĄEcue-Yamba-O! (1933) are indicative examples of Cuban modernism.
Argentine modernist developments are typically categorized according to the two main artistic factions that existed in the capital in the early decades of the twentieth century: the Florida and Boedo groups. Named after two districts of Buenos Aires, these groups represent the central (and opposing) artistic and ideological currents that coexisted in the capital during this period. Florida brought together primarily middle- and upper-class writers and artists who sought to promote avant-garde experimentation and the rejection of traditional culture. Boedo championed working-class causes and the social realist fiction that best represented them. LeĂłnidas Barletta succinctly encapsulates the groupsâ opposing though related aims when he writes that Florida sought a ârevolution for artâ while Boedo pursued âart for a revolution.â3
Borges was central to the Florida group, founding and contributing to a number of its key publications, such as Prisma, Proa, and MartĂn Fierro. During the early decades of the twentieth century, UltraĂsmo dominated much of the poetic production of the Florida group and defined itself as a quest for the new, aiming to shed the ornamentation of previous generations of writers and achieve what they saw as concentrated metaphor. UltraĂsmo shares many characteristics with Creacionismo developed by Chilean Vicente Huidobro; this poetics privileged the singular role of the writer as creatorâcasting him as literally âa little godâ whose works would reject mimetic forms in favor of autonomous creation.4 While Huidobro valorized the act of âpure creation,â fellow Chilean poet Neruda advocated an opposing poetics of impurity that rejected the autonomy of the art object and reconnected it with the dirt and sweat of humanity and thus anchored it in material reality. This tension between autonomous avant-garde creation and social engagement colors many of the modernist developments throughout the continent.
Rather than simply rejecting European and US cultural modes, Latin American modernists demanded to be voices (not echoes) in a larger dialogue. Even so, the issues of influence and imitation have governed subsequent scholarly accounts of Latin Americaâs positioning in relation to European and US modernism. Of the figures represented in this section, Victoria Ocampo, Gabriela Mistral, CĂ©sar Vallejo, and JoaquĂn Torres-GarcĂa spent substantial periods in Europe observing and contributing to vanguard artistic activities. Other key figures such as Rivera, Huidobro, Neruda, Borges, Emilio Pettoruti, and Carpentier likewise made important interventions in European and US modernist scenes. In the late teens and early 1920s, Huidobro and Borges, for example, edited and published frequently in French and Spanish literary journals such as Pierre Reverdyâs Nord-Sud and Isaac del Vando-Villarâs Grecia, with both writers credited with having consolidated the UltraĂsta movement in Spain before transporting it to the Southern Cone. In the US context, Rivera was the second artist (after Matisse) to have a solo show at New Yorkâs MoMA gallery in 1931, breaking all previous attendance records in his opening week. Meanwhile, the 1920s and 1930s also saw an unprecedented number of US and European artists and writers operating within Latin America. The American photographer Edward Weston, for exampl...