Broken souths : Latina/o poetic responses to neoliberalism and globalization / Michael Dowdy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (297 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780816599578 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Broken souths : Latina/o poetic responses to neoliberalism and globalization.DDC classification:
  • 811.009/868 23
LOC classification:
  • PS153.H56 D69 2013eb
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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 Norteamérica -- 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, andJack Agüeros -- Godzilla in Mexico City: poetics of infrastructure in José Emilio Pacheco and Roberto Bolaño -- Coda: Too much of it: Marjorie Agosín's and Valerie Martínez's representations of femicide in the Maquila Zone.
Summary: "Broken Souths offers the first 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, author Michael Dowdy presents ecocritical readings that foreground the environmental dimensions of current Latina/o poetics"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Norteamérica -- 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, andJack Agüeros -- Godzilla in Mexico City: poetics of infrastructure in José Emilio Pacheco and Roberto Bolaño -- Coda: Too much of it: Marjorie Agosín's and Valerie Martínez's representations of femicide in the Maquila Zone.

"Broken Souths offers the first 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, author Michael Dowdy presents ecocritical readings that foreground the environmental dimensions of current Latina/o poetics"--Provided by publisher.

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