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

"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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Place / Publishing House:Tucson : : University of Arizona Press,, [2013]
2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (297 pages)
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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: 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.