Between poetry and reportage: Raúl González Tuñón, journalism and Literary Modernization in 1930s Argentina

ROGERS, GERALDINE

Comparative print culture: A Study of Alternative Literary Modernities

Palgrave Macmillian

Lugar: New York; Año: 2020; p. 83 - 103

Rogers examines journalistic chronicling in 1930s Argentina as a reworking of a French genre catering to the distinct Argentinian circumstances of the time. From a series of reportages written by one of Argentina?s foremost avant-garde poets, Raúl González Tuñón, the chapter draws attention to the retooling of the genre for the constitution of an Argentinian vernacular of modern literariness. It also shows the overlapping of reportages and avant-garde poetry in both themes and techniques. Rogers argues that literary modernization was the result not only of the highbrow European Modernism, but also of exchanges across borders of high/low culture, of genres, and of nations, at a time when the rise of mass culture coincided with the rise of avant-garde art.