Spanish American Poetry at the End of the Twentieth Century: Textual Disruptions - Softcover

Kuhnheim, Jill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0292719477 ISBN 13: 9780292719477

Publisher: University of Texas Press, 2005

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Jill S. Kuhnheim is Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature at the University of Kansas.

Review

"This is a major book for the field of contemporary Latin American poetry, original in its scope, depth, and breadth. . . . It is a showcase of recent currents of expression in Latin America." (Jacobo Sefamí, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Irvine)

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0292719477
• ISBN 13: 9780292719477
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 223