Surveying the Avant-Garde

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Questioning the Avant Garde

1. Defining the Questionnaire

2. Picturing Latin America

3. Translating the Americas

4. Forming National Canons

5. Extending into the Contemporary

Conclusion: Interrogating Print Culture

Appendix

A Century of Questionnaires: A Chronological Index

Notes

Bibliography

Index

“One of Surveying the Avant-Garde’s strengths is to be found in a deft compass for cosmopolitan literary history, which has no geographic home but which navigates ‘a web of European and Latin American alliances’ in Paris, Havana, Madrid, and Buenos Aires.”

—Harris Feinsod, American Literary History