Latin American Literature and the Great War: On the Globality of World War I

by Mariano Siskind

This book explores the ways in which Latin American poets, novelists, journalists, public intellectuals, and a vast number of unknown soldier-memorialists produced aesthetic and political discourses on World War I as a Latin American literary event. Siskind presents a unified Latin American corpus that sheds light on the possibility of understanding World War I not just as a European affair, but also as a privileged symbolic horizon against...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113892413X
• ISBN13: 9781138924130
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 228 Pages