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

"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 reading...

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Main Author: Dowdy, Michael
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2013]
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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 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.