Spanish American Poetry at the End of the Twentieth Century : : Textual Disruptions / / Jill Kuhnheim.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Kuhnheim, Jill,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Has poetry lost its relevance in the postmodern age, unable to keep pace with other forms of cultural production such as film, mass media, and the Internet? Quite the contrary, argues Jill Kuhnheim in this pathfinding book, which explores how recent Spanish American poetry participates in the fundamental cultural debates of its time. Using a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, Kuhnheim engages in close readings of numerous poetic works to show how contemporary Spanish American poetry struggles with the divisions between politics and aesthetics and between visual and written images; grapples with issues of ethnic, national, sexual, and urban identities; and incorporates rather than rejects technological innovations and elements from the mass media. Her analysis illuminates the ways in which contemporary issues such as indigenismo and Latin America's postcolonial legacy, modernization, immigration, globalization, economic shifts toward neoliberalism and informal economies, urbanization, and the technological revolution have been expressed in—and even changed the very form of—Spanish American poetry since the 1970s.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction. Textual Disruptions The Boundaries of the Literary -- 1 Toward a Postmodern Indigenismo The Problem of Cultural Authenticity -- 3 Recycling Urban Poetry al fin del siglo -- 4 Sensual Excess The Neobaroque -- 5 Poetry and Technology -- EPILOGUE."As I Advance the Water Changes" -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index