After the horrors of World War I, Latin American writing turned away from what many saw as ornamental and frivolous experimentation. This program studies the so-called "criticism of Modernismo within Modernismo" in which language reached back to a simpler, more intimate, less urban-centered framework. Investigating the work of several poets and authors of the period-including Enrique Gonzalez Martinez, Julio Herrera y Reissig, Maria Eugenia Vaz, Leopoldo Lugones, Delmira Agustini, Ramon Lopez Velarde, and Cesar Vallejo-the program reveals complex dynamics of nationalism and cosmopolitanism, Western literature and indigenous voices, and the spirit of breaking with the past and of belonging to an artistic tradition.

Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on Oct. 24, 2007. Learn360 is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.

Latin American Literature at the Dawn of the 20th Century (2:43) -- Ruben Dario and the Attack on Modernismo (2:51) -- Sensuality and Eroticism in Latin American Poetry (1:50) -- Latin American Poets: Delmira Agustini (3:58) -- Latin American Poets: Ramn Lpez Velarde (2:29) -- Latin American Literature: Advent of the Avant-Garde (4:44) -- Latin American Literature: Avant-Garde Manifestos (2:13) -- Latin American Literature: Vicente Huidobro and Avant-Garde Poetry (3:43) -- Latin American Literature: Pablo Neruda and Avant-Garde Poetry (3:11) -- Latin American Literature: Csar Vallejo and Avant-Garde Poetry (4:24) -- Latin American Literature: Jose Carlos Mariategui and the Avant-Garde (2:05) -- Latin American Literature: The Stridentism Movement (2:34) -- Latin American Literature: The Contemporaneos (1:54) -- The Influence of Ultraism on Latin American Literature (4:38) -- Latin American Literature: Avant-Garde Prose (3:36) -- Latin America's Literary Avant-Garde Movements (1:36).