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

By: Dowdy, MichaelMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2013]Copyright date: 2013Description: 1 online resource (297 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780816599578Subject(s): American poetry -- Hispanic American authors -- History and criticism | Hispanic Americans in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Broken souths : Latina/o poetic responses to neoliberalism and globalization.DDC classification: 811.009/868 LOC classification: PS153.H56 | D69 2013Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction: Contesting the counter-revolution: a Latina/o literary geography of the neoliberal era -- Hemispheric otherwises in the shadow of 1968: Martin Espada's Zapatista poems -- Molotovs and subtleties:Juan Felipe Herrera's post-movement Norteamerica -- Against the neoliberal state: Roberto Bolano's country of writing and Martin 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 Hernandez Cruz, andJack Agueros -- Godzilla in Mexico City: poetics of infrastructure in Jose Emilio Pacheco and Roberto Bolano -- Coda: Too much of it: Marjorie Agosin's and Valerie Martinez'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: Martin Espada's Zapatista poems -- Molotovs and subtleties:Juan Felipe Herrera's post-movement Norteamerica -- Against the neoliberal state: Roberto Bolano's country of writing and Martin 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 Hernandez Cruz, andJack Agueros -- Godzilla in Mexico City: poetics of infrastructure in Jose Emilio Pacheco and Roberto Bolano -- Coda: Too much of it: Marjorie Agosin's and Valerie Martinez'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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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