Broken Souths : Latina/o Poetic Responses to Neoliberalism and Globalization /

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This book offers an in-depth study of the diverse field of contemporary Latina/o poetry. Its innovative angle of approach puts Latina/o and Latin American poets into sustained conversation in original and rewarding ways. In addition, the author presents ecocritical readings that foreground the envir...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dowdy, Michael
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hispanic Americans in literature.
American poetry > Hispanic American authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
Americains d'origine latino-americaine dans la litterature.
Poesie americaine > Auteurs americains d'origine latino-americaine > Histoire et critique.
American poetry > Hispanic American authors > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Contesting the counter-revolution : a Latina/o literary geography of the neoliberal era
  • Hemispheric otherwises in the shadow of 1968 : Martín Espada's Zapatista poems
  • Molotovs and subtleties : Juan Felipe Herrera's post-movement Norteamerica
  • Against the neoliberal state : Roberto Bolaño's "country" of writing and Martín Espada's "republic" of poetry
  • "Andando entre dos mundos" : Maurice Kilwein Guevara's and Marcos McPeek Villatoro's Appalachian Latino poetics
  • "Migration ... is not a crime" : Puerto Rican status and "T-shirt solidarity" in Judith Ortiz Cofer, Victor Hernández Cruz, and Jack Agüeros
  • Godzilla in Mexico City : poetics of infrastructure in Jose Emilio Pacheco and Roberto Bolaño
  • Coda : "Too much of it" : Marjorie Agosín's and Valerie Martínez's representations of femicide in the Maquila Zone.

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