Broken souths Latina/o poetic responses to neoliberalism and globalization / Michael Dowdy.
| Author/creator | Dowdy, Michael |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2013] |
| Description | xiv, 279 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: Contesting the counter-revolution: a Latina/o literary geography of the neoliberal era -- Hemispheric otherwises in the shadow of 1968: Martín Espada's Zapatista poems -- Molotovs and subtleties:Juan Felipe Herrera's post-movement Norteamérica -- Against the neoliberal state: Roberto Bolaño's country of writing and Martín 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 Hernández Cruz, andJack Agüeros -- Godzilla in Mexico City: poetics of infrastructure in José Emilio Pacheco and Roberto Bolaño -- Coda: Too much of it: Marjorie Agosín's and Valerie Martínez's representations of femicide in the Maquila Zone. |
| Abstract | "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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-265) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013011196 |
| ISBN | 9780816530298 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |