Dialogues along a North-South Axis
AbstractThis article examines commonalities and differences between the literary and artistic avant-gardes in Mexico and Peru during the 1920s, as well as instances of direct exchange between Mexican writers and artists and Peruvian exiles in Mexico. It traces the ways in which works of literature and art conceptualized the avant-garde in relation to modernity and/or social justice. Debates around contemporary aesthetics, especially the perspectives of Jose Carlos Mariategui and Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, are addressed, as are the Mexican avant-garde movements Estridentismo and ꜟ30-30!.