Creativity and Science in Contemporary Argentine Literature ― Between Romanticism and Formalism

With a burgeoning academic interest in Latin American science fiction and representations of science and technology in Latin American literature and cinema, this book adds new understanding to the growing body of interdisciplinary work on the relationship between literature and science in postmodern culture. It is the first major study in English that focuses on texts by contemporary Argentine writers Ricardo Piglia, Guillermo Martinez, and Marcelo Cohen, which draw on theories of formal systems, chaos, emergence, and complexity to counter proclamations of the end of philosophy or the exhaustion of literature in the postmodern era. This book also makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how newness and creativity have been theorized, tracing often unexpected relationships between thinkers such as Nietzsche, Deleuze, and the Russian Formalists.

Joanna Page is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Crisis and Capitalism in Contemporary Argentine Cinema and the co-editor of Visual Synergies in Fiction and Documentary Film from Latin America.