Introduction: Planetary Engagement, the Historical Avant-Garde, and Iberian Colonialism (1909–1929)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Planetary Engagement, the Historical Avant-Garde, and Iberian Colonialism (1909–1929) 3
6. 1. The Geographies and Temporalities of Futurism: Almada Negreiros, Portuguese Modernismo, and European Colonialism in Africa 24
7. 2. Placing Vicente Huidobro within the Historical Avant-Garde: Experimental Poetics and the Planetary Critique of European Historicism 56
8. 3. Away from Montmartre: Blaise Cendrars, Tarsila do Amaral, and the Travel Notes of the Historical Avant-Garde 86
9. 4. The Spectre of Translation: Angela Manalang Gloria, José Garcia Villa, Claro Recto, and the Comparative Poetics of Modernism in the Philippines 121
10. Coda: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Lilly Reich, and the Barcelona World’s Fair of 1929: Experimental Form as Network and the Traditionalist Politics of Empire 151
11. Notes 173
12. Bibliography 207
13. Index 221