Spanish American poetry at the end of the twentieth century : textual disruptions / Jill S. Kuhnheim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kuhnheim, Jill S.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Spanish American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Spanish American poetry.

Literature and society--Latin America.

Literature and society.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

x, 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2004.

Summary:

Using a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, Kuhnheim engages in close readings of numerous poetic works to show how contemporary Spanish American poetry struggles with the divisions between politics and aesthetics and between visual and written images; grapples with issues of ethnic, national, sexual, and urban identities; and incorporates rather than rejects technological innovations and elements from the mass media. Her analysis illuminates the ways in which contemporary issues such as indigenismo and Latin America's postcolonial legacy, modernization, immigration, globalization, economic shifts toward neoliberalism and informal economies, urbanization, and the technological revolution have been expressed in- and even changed the very form of- Spanish American poetry since the 1970s.

Contents:

Textual disruptions : the boundaries of the literary

Toward a postmodern indigenismo : the problem of cultural authenticity

Image and text : reading outside language

Recycling urban poetry al fin del siglo

Sensual excess : the Neobaroque

Poetry and technology

"As I advance the water changes".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-199) and index.

ISBN:

0292705980

OCLC:

56065377

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