The Experience of Presentist Temporality in El Café de Nadie

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32870/revistaargos.v13.n31.e0197

Keywords:

Stridentism, Avant-garde, Temporality

Abstract

The Stridentist movement was Mexico’s contribution to the international avant-garde, characterized by its formation as a multidisciplinary collective involving writers and visual artists. This collective nature of Stridentism has been overlooked by the increasing studies on this avant-garde, thereby neglecting the way they articulately construct a particular poetics. One example of this collaborative work is the configuration of the symbolic space known as El Café de Nadie. The purpose of this article is to examine how the Stridentist group, through literature and visual arts, configures El Café de Nadie as the place where one can experience the presentist temporality that the collective proposes as a revolutionary time open to human emotion. Additionally, it attempts to show that the interdisciplinary work between literature and visual arts seeks to create an immersive experience for the reader-spectator of this unique space-time that is the avant-garde cafe.

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Published

2026-04-21

How to Cite

Rodríguez González, A. (2026). The Experience of Presentist Temporality in El Café de Nadie. Argos Journal, 13(31), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.32870/revistaargos.v13.n31.e0197

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Vol. 13 No. 31 (2026): January-June

Section

Literary discussion

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