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Global South Modernism: Tagore, Victoria Ocampo and the Geopolitics of Horizontal Relations

Novillo-Corvalan, Patricia (2021) Global South Modernism: Tagore, Victoria Ocampo and the Geopolitics of Horizontal Relations. Modernist Cultures, 16 (2). pp. 164-190. ISSN 1753-8629. (doi:10.3366/mod.2021.0327) (KAR id:77710)

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Abstract

This article explores cultural dialogues between countries located in the (so-called) global South, focusing on India and Argentina through the nexus between the Bengali author, artist, and educationalist Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) and the Argentine writer, publisher, and feminist Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979). The article examines the dialectical tensions that arose out of their encounter in Buenos Aires in 1924 which, while forging productive cultural networks through the globalist paradigms proposed by Ocampo’s modernist review SUR and Tagore’s Bengal-inflected notion of visva-sahitya – as well as the latter’s significant contribution to the Argentine cultural scene – it also brought to the fore the geopolitics of empire by foregrounding India’s and Argentina’s fraught colonial relations with imperial Britain.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.3366/mod.2021.0327
Projects: [UNSPECIFIED] Indo-Argentine Cultural Networks: Tagore, Victoria Ocampo, and South-South Solidarity
Subjects: P Language and Literature
P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN851 Comparative Literature
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Culture and Languages
Funders: Organisations -1 not found.
Depositing User: Patricia Novillo-Corvalan
Date Deposited: 22 Oct 2019 11:18 UTC
Last Modified: 30 Apr 2022 23:00 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/77710 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)
Novillo-Corvalan, Patricia: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0751-1930
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