Manifiestos, proclamas y polémicas de la vanguardia literaria hispanoamericana (1988) [Spanish]
Filed under book | Tags: · avant-garde, history of literature, latin america, literature, manifesto
“El presente volumen constituye una suma de los textos más importantes mediante los cuales se debatió en toda América Latina el famoso movimiento de las vanguardias artísticas, acción renovadora de sintonía internacional cuyos efectos se hicieron sentir en todos los niveles de la vida social, política y cultural del mundo y de nuestro continente. A la vez, en sus protagonistas hispanoamericanos, acentuó el sentimiento de su condición común. Por ello es necesario dejar de considerar tal movimiento como un mero eco o reflejo de los vanguardismos europeos, para revelar, por el contrario, su consanguinidad continental y universal. El formidable trabajo realizado por Nelson Osorio para la edición de esta obra nos permite contar con una antología única en su tipo, ya que por primera vez se recogen textos programáticos, trabajos modernistas que se articulan al movimiento y documentos no literarios dispersos en numerosas publicaciones de difícil acceso para el lector, verdadero capítulo de las ideas estéticas latinoamericanas en el que se incluyen autores como Amado Nervo, Rubén Darío, Leopoldo Lugones, Luis Llorens Torres, Vicente Huidobro, Jorge Luis Borges, César Vallejo, José Carlos Mariátegui y Magda Portal, entre otros.”
Selected, edited, with introduction, bibliography and notes by Nelson Osorio T.
Publisher Biblioteca Ayacucho, Caracas, Venezuela, 1988
ISBN 9802760633, 9789802760633
xl+417 pages
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PDF (142 MB)
Comment (1)Caren Irr: Pink Pirates: Contemporary American Women Writers and Copyright (2010)
Filed under book | Tags: · copyright, feminism, history of literature, literary criticism, literary theory, literature, piracy
“Readings of contemporary American women writers, controversies over copyright, and feminist theory
Today, copyright is everywhere, surrounded by a thicket of no trespassing signs that mark creative work as private property. Caren Irr’s Pink Pirates asks how contemporary novelists—represented by Ursula Le Guin, Andrea Barrett, Kathy Acker, and Leslie Marmon Silko—have read those signs, arguing that for feminist writers in particular copyright often conjures up the persistent exclusion of women from ownership. Bringing together voices from law schools, courtrooms, and the writer’s desk, Irr shows how some of the most inventive contemporary feminist novelists have reacted to this history.
Explaining the complex, three-century lineage of Anglo-American copyright law in clear, accessible terms and wrestling with some of copyright law’s most deeply rooted assumptions, Irr sets the stage for a feminist reappraisal of the figure of the literary pirate in the late twentieth century—a figure outside the restrictive bounds of U.S. copyright statutes.
Going beyond her readings of contemporary women authors, Irr’s exhaustive history of how women have fared under intellectual property regimes speaks to broader political, social, and economic implications and engages digital-era excitement about the commons with the most utopian and materialist strains in feminist criticism.”
Publisher University of Iowa Press, 2010
ISBN 1587299127, 9781587299124
220 pages
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Reviews: Madeleine Monson-Rosen (Mediations, 2010), Sean Latham (Modern Language Quarterly, 2012).
Comments (2)Nadezhda Mandelstam: Hope Against Hope: A Memoir (1970) [RU, EN]
Filed under book | Tags: · 1930s, avant-garde, biography, history, history of literature, literature, memory, poetry, politics, russia, soviet union, totalitarianism
“Nadezhda Mandelstam’s memoir of her life with poet Osip, who was first arrested in 1934 and died in Stalin’s Great Purge of 1937-38. The book is a vital eyewitness account of Stalin’s Soviet Union and one of the greatest testaments to the value of literature and imaginative freedom ever written.”
Publisher Chekhov Publishing Corp., New York, 1970
432 pages
English edition
Translated by Max Hayward
With an Introduction by Clarence Brown
Publisher Atheneum, New York, 1970
Fifth printing, 1983
ISBN 0689705301
xvi+432 pages
Reviews: George Ivask (Slavic Review, 1971), Simon Karlinsky (Slavic and East European Journal, 1971), Robert P. Hughes (Russian Review, 1971), Seamus Heaney (London Review of Books, 1981), Elaine Feinstein (The Independent, 2013).
Commentary: Judith Robey (Slavic and East European Journal, 1998).
Vospominaniya (Russian, 1970/1999, TXT; HTML)
Hope Against Hope (English, 1970/1983, PDF/42 MB; DJVU/7 MB)