Speaker: Sarah Ann Wells, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Moderator: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University.
Series co-chaired and moderated by Mariano Siskind and Brian D. Farrell Director DRCLAS; Professor Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.
This workshop examines the multiple transformations authorship undergoes throughout the long twentieth century in South America (Argentina Brazil and Uruguay). Our focus is on a compelling period of transition: the “late modernism” of the 1930s-1940s when privileged categories such as rupture invention and experimentation were thrown into doubt. While partially a response to economic and political upheavals the new figures of authorship that emerged from this crisis indexed transformations in the new media that had been central to the earlier avant-gardes — cinema radio and the typewriter. Authors began to reflect on how they might respond and in turn help shape a shifting and consolidating media ecology. At stake was a reconfiguration of authorship as usership in which writers recast themselves as viewers and listeners as laborers and feelers tinkerers and gamers. While grounded in the late modernism of the 1930s and 1940s this workshop also asks participants to think of how these problems might animate other historical contexts including authorship in contemporary Latin America.
LOCATION:CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20171130T230000Z DTEND:20171201T010000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR