The Deterritorialised Transvanguard of Latin America in the Second Half of the 20th century

The notion of “avant-garde” has been widely used and revised since the emergence of a transdisciplinary aesthetic phenomenon that became known as historical avant-garde from the second half of the last century. This phenomenon, with differences, took place in both Latin America and Europe.

The idea of ​​“avant-garde” refers to concepts of extreme experimentation and archive review, two pillars for which, most likely, it has been frequently used to refer to phenomena of metamorphosis, not only aesthetic ones. In the present research, focused on a set of texts by three Latin American authors (Virgilio Piñera, Elena Garro and Cristina Peri Rossi) who migrated to different metropolises in the second half of the 20th century, the focus was placed on the study of how aesthetic experimentation and the discussion linked to national archives - the avant-garde agency - is deepened in contexts of migration or deterritorialization. The relationship between migration and the avant-garde constituted the nodal point of this work.