Displaced secularization. The vanguard in the anti-modernity process

Authors

  • Ana Davis Universidad de Sevilla

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v14i29.575

Abstract

The following paper proposes a definition of “avant-garde” based on its attempt to secularize the art from the romantic ideal and sublimity. To do this, it starts from a broad notion of “secularization” linked to the process of modernity, a process of desecration that avant-garde tried to apply to art. We suggest that this attempt was unsuccessful and that avant-garde resulted in a resistance to the modern, in clear contradiction to its discourse of rupture and novelty. The study is divided into three parts: the first one focuses on delimiting the notions of “secularization”, “modernity” and “anti-modernity”; the second on, in defining the avant-garde in relation to its attempt to secularize art; finally, the third one exposes the failure of this attempt and exemplifies it in the literary field through the antithesis between poetry and novel genre.

Author Biography

Ana Davis, Universidad de Sevilla

Es doctora en Estudios Filológicos por la Universidad de Sevilla (2020) y actualmente trabaja como investigadora posdoctoral Margarita Salas en la misma universidad. Entre sus líneas de investigación se incluyen la relación entre vanguardia y nacionalismo, e intersecciones entre literatura latinoamericana e ideología durante el siglo xx; temas en los que continúa profundizando en los tres proyectos de los que forma parte en la actualidad como investigadora: “TRANS-ARCH (Archives in Transition: Collective Memories and Subaltern Uses)”, “Todos los caminos conducen a Rulfo. Itinerarios del cuento mexicano desde el modernismo hasta El llano en llamas (Programa Operativo FEDER Andalucía 2014-2020)” y “Escritores latinoamericanos en los países socialistas europeos durante la Guerra Fría (ELASOC)”. Ha realizado numerosas estancias de investigación en universidades extranjeras: Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad Nacional de Rosario y Harvard University. Entre sus últimas publicaciones destaca el volumen Vanguardia y refundación nacional en Adán buenosayres (Peter Lang, 2021), y los artículos siguientes: “La negación de la historiografía en ‘Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote’ y Respiración artificial” (Perífrasis, 2021), “Facundo y Museo de la Novela de la Eterna, dos modos de leer lo real y la ficción” (Estudios de Teoría Literaria, 2020), “La recepción diferida de la narrativa de Roberto Arlt y Leopoldo Marechal” (Monteagudo, 2020). Y de próxima aparición (en imprenta y ya aceptado): “La recepción de Museo de la Novela de la Eterna. De la vanguardia diferida en el Boom a la nacionalización de su autonomía en el posBoom” (Alpha, 2022).

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Published

2021-11-22

How to Cite

Davis, A. (2021). Displaced secularization. The vanguard in the anti-modernity process. Valenciana, 14(29), 7–30. https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v14i29.575

Issue

No. 29 (2022): Valenciana 29, enero-junio 2022

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Artículos

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