Pan American Imagination

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Pan American Imagination

Contested Visions of the Hemisphere in Twentieth-Century Literature

Literary studies: general Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

Author: Stephen M. Park

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Collection: New World Studies

Language: English

Published by: University of Virginia Press

Published on: 15th December 2014

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 4 Mb

ISBN: 9780813936673


In the history of the early twentieth-century Americas, visions of hemispheric unity flourished, and the notion of a transnational American identity was embraced by artists, intellectuals, and government institutions. In The Pan American Imagination, Stephen Park explores the work of several Pan American modernists who challenged the body of knowledge being produced about Latin America, crossing the disciplinary boundaries of academia as well as the formal boundaries of artistic expression—from literary texts and travel writing to photography, painting, and dance. Park invests in an interdisciplinary approach, which he frames as a politically resistant intellectual practice, using it not only to examine the historical phenomenon of Pan Americanism but also to explore the implications for current transnational scholarship.

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