Latin American Literature and the Great War

This book explores the ways in which Latin American writers produced aesthetic and political discourses on World War I as a Latin American literary event. Siskind sheds light on the possibility of understanding World War I not just as a European affair, but also as a privileged symbolic horizon against which some of the most important Latin American writers of that period worked through collective and individual anxieties. This corpus sheds light on the interwoven meaning of the nation, modernity, cosmopolitan ethical demands, and the globalization of mass violence. It proposes productive dialogues and polemics with the fields of war literature and global modernisms.