Lesson on vanguardia Latin American Poetry, March 19th, 2018

General overview of the vanguardais in Latin America: [Have a theme or thesis: poetry or art as a
political position/way of life/ la integracion de vida y arte]

Slide 1)Title card

Slide 2) Overview/phases of lecture

Slide 2a) “modernism/modernism”; distinguish vanguardias from other movement and English-
language movement(s); periodization of your lecture

Slide 3) Some general descriptions of the Latin American vanguards:

Jorge Schwartz, Guillermo de TOrme? (in PR volume? pg. 88), and one more?

-Perhaps divide up presentations on topics addressed by each: politics, art and life,
modernity, urban spaces…

-Find Visual artists to complement your readings. [GIrondo’s drawings]

Slides 4+ )

Periodization/Of some movements/describe them?

Aesthetic trends I;e, Estridentismo, [Use Melanie Nicholson for periodization]

Political relevance

-[El Caribe?]

-“Disclaimer: van a notar que hago muchas referencias al surrealism, como es un movimiento
que yo estudio"

Go through European influences:

Slide): Surrealism: Automatic writing, juxtaposition of associations. Examples: Octavio Paz, Cesar
Moro, [have them read aloud]

Painting: Roberto Matta, y? Fotos de museo en Chile…**

Huidobro and his attitudes of automatic writing [ have them do a quick automatic poem? ]
Cadavre Exquis *

Those influenced more broadly by avant-garde trends; some examples:

-Oliverio Girondo; Reading of Espantapajaros with them*

-Octavio Paz, and Surrealism

- Nicanor Parra? and his nihilist Dada spirit?

- Futurism?

-Brazil, concrete poetry and Vicente Huidobo

-Walter Benjamin and ‘nihilism’ as a political tool

-Mariategui and the importance of Communism, esp. in Surrealism? [Link to Moro’s statements and his
stance on painting? meh] Cesar Vallejo’s concerns with fetishization of LA. Perhaps use this as an in to
discuss the European relationship with Latin America.

- 2 SLides) Conclusiones: Los aportes esteticos que han contribuido las vanguardias: estrategias
formales, como el uso de figuras visuales, el contra de el sujeto lirico [parnassism/modernismo]

-El sujeto

Tambien, el valor político: poder revitalizar el concepto de la nación bajo nuevos términos, y también la
relación entre el sujeto y el estado. [Comunismo, Neruda? Film clip?]