Modernismo e Guerra Fria: a historicidade de uma estética na segunda metade do século XX

Leandro Pasini

doi:10.35699/2317-2096.2024.51377

Authors

Leandro Pasini Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) | São Paulo | SP | BR Author https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6231-3860

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-2096.2024.51377

Keywords:

global modernisms, Cold War, taiwanese modernism, arabic modernism, decolonization, modernist poetry

Abstract

This article aims to investigate the developments of modernist aesthetics in the second half of the twentieth century in the context of the Cold War and the large-scale decolonization of countries in Africa and Asia. More specifically, it addresses two literary groups in which the idea of modernism was decisive: the Modernist School (Xiandaipai) in Taiwan and the Poetry (Shi’r) magazine group in Lebanon, both operating in the 1950s and 1960s. It also mentions briefly the continuity of modernism at the end of the 1970s and beginning of the following decade in cultural spaces previously completely dominated by the aesthetics of the Eastern Bloc, such as Uzbekistan and the People’s Republic of China. Thus, it is within the intense political, ideological and cultural clashes between 1950 and 1990 that the presence of modernism is located.

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