Visible Dissent : Latin American Writers, Small U.S Presses, and Progressive Social Changes / Teresa V. Longo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Longo, Teresa, 1956- author.

Series:

New American canon.

New American canon. Iowa series in contemporary literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Small presses--United States--History.

Small presses.

Protest literature, Spanish--Latin America--History and criticism.

Protest literature, Spanish.

Latin American poetry--History and criticism.

Latin American poetry.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 PDF (xix, 148 pages) :) color illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City [Iowa] : University of Iowa Press, [2018]

Summary:

As Teresa Longo's groundbreaking examination reveals, North America's dissident literature has its roots in the Latin American literary tradition. From Pablo Neruda's Canto General to Eduardo Galeano's Open Veins of Latin America to Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude--among others--contemporary writers throughout the Americas have forced us to reconsider the United States's relationship with Latin America, and more broadly with the Global South. Highlighting the importance of reading and re-reading the Latin American canon in the United States, Longo finds that literature can be an instrument of progressive social change, and argues that small literary presses--City Lights, Curbstone, and Seven Stories--have made that dissent visible in the United States. In the book's final two chapters on the Robert F. Kennedy Center's Speak Truth to Power initiative and the publication of Marc Falkoff's Poems from Guantánamo, the author turns our attention further outward, probing the role poetry, theater, and photography play in global human rights work. Locating the work of artists and writers alongside that of scholars and legal advocates, Visible Dissent not only unveils the staying-power of committed writing, it honors the cross-currents and the on-the-ground implications of humane political engagement.

Contents:

Preface: The poetry exchange

Humanity rendered visible: Ariel Dorfman's other Septembers, many Americas and Goshka Macuga's The nature of the beast

Macchu Picchu and other poetic sites: Julia De Burgos' Poems from Welfare Island, Neruda's Alturas de Macchu Picchu and Marton Espada's The republic of poetry

Meme's Macondo: Garcoa Morquez's One hundred years of solitude

From Macondo to the Mexican southeast: Marcos' "the Southeast in two winds" and Esther's speech to the Congress of the Union

The RFK Center and other powerful sites: Ariel Dorfman's Manifesto for another world and Kerry Kennedy's Speak truth to power

Epilogue: A poetics of habeas corpus.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-143) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781609385705

1609385705

OCLC:

1035556314