Spanish American Poetry At The End Of The Twentieth Century

by Kuhnheim, Jill

• ISBN13: 9780292705982
• ISBN10: 0292705980
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-31
• Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr

Summary

"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 Sefamiacute;, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Irvine 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.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction Textual Disruptions
The Boundaries of the Literary	1	(13)
Toward a Postmodern Indigenismo
The Problem of Cultural Authenticity	14	(33)
Image and Text
Reading Outside Language	47	(35)
Recycling Urban Poetry al fin del siglo	82	(63)
Sensual Excess
The Neobaroque	115	(30)
Poetry and Technology	145	(25)
Epilogue ``As I Advance the Water Changes''	170	(3)
Notes	173	(16)
Works Cited	189	(12)
Index	201