Antonio Skármeta’s Uniqueness

• Randolph D. Pope ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Virginia

     University of Virginia

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: A Contracorriente: Revista de Historia Social y Literatura en América Latina, ISSN-e 1548-7083, Vol. 10, Nº. 1, 2012 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Otoño 2012), págs. 124-146
• Idioma: inglés
• Enlaces
  • Texto completo
• Resumen

  • This chapter uses the collective works of Antonio Skármeta as a metric with which to gauge how the world's perception and expectation of Latin American intellectual subjectivity has evolved, sometimes erratically, since the end of the Cold War. This sociological analysis of Skármeta, and his need to morph formally alongside the rapidly shifting Latin American aesthetic landscape, traces the Generation of '72's collective unease with World Literary schema and economies of prestige. Imagistically skipping from a young Chilean writer in the sixties that cannot convince his Californian contemporaries that Chile and Argentina are different countries to Skármeta's recent triumphs at the Los Angeles and Paris Opera Houses, Pope points out that global success, for this generation, is always cut with an undercurrent of irony.