The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Latin American Poetry brings together internationally recognised experts to offer a fresh and urgent perspective on Latin America's contemporary poetry and the culture and politics of the region in the last twenty-five years.
Delving into the often-overlooked realm of poetic expression, this companion provides a rich and complex assessment of Latin America's diverse voices and a comprehensive understanding of the genre's evolution and significance. By focusing on wider tendencies, geographical areas, and a select group of poets for individual case-studies, the work gives clear and necessary insights into the recent poetry of this region. Engaging with the work of poets who challenge conventions, this edited collection illuminates the cultural and political landscapes of the last two decades, providing readers with a fresh perspective on Latin America's rich literary tapestry.
This volume is a vital resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, and academics in Latin American Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, and related fields, as well as anyone interested in the intersection of poetry, identity, and contemporary Latin American culture.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"One of the distinctive features of poetry is that remarkable essays can be written about it, commensurate with the language and syntax they analyze. In this volume, Ben Bollig and Jorge J. Locane, two of the best and most rigorous thinkers of contemporary Latin American poetry, have brought together a group of critics of the same level of academic excellence. The results are phenomenal. It is an examination of writing trends and the formal and ideological options being considered in the poetry of our time. A crucible of analysis, information, and imaginative surveying, this book is ideally suited to enable poetry to continue speaking, even in a dimension beyond language."
Eduardo Espina, author of The Milli Vanilli Condition: Essays on Culture in the New Millennium
"Comprehensive, contemporary and discerning, this is a book on fire. The organising principle is magnificent: regions that include borders and migrants, tendencies that give equal space to the already visible and the newly emerging, and figures, all of whom are crucial. The three axes cross to create a moving constellation."
Cristina Rivera Garza, Pulitzer Prize winner and Professor in Hispanic Studies, University of Houston, USA
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Sprache
Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced
Illustrationen
1 s/w Tabelle, 24 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 24 s/w Abbildungen
1 Tables, black and white; 24 Halftones, black and white; 24 Illustrations, black and white
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Höhe: 246 mm
Breite: 174 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-032-77012-3 (9781032770123)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Ben Bollig is a Professor of Latin American Literature and Film at the University of Oxford, UK.
Jorge J. Locane is a Professor of Literature and Culture in the Spanish-speaking World at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Introduction
Part I. Regions
1 AMAZONIA: Contemporary Amazonian Poetry
2 ANDEAN REGION: Andean Poetics for the Twenty-First Century: An Approach from Rewriting
3 CENTRAL AMERICA: Four Contemporary Central American Poets
4 SOUTHER CONE: "A Voice Similar to Its Opposite": Latin American Southern Cone Poetry in the Twenty-First Century
5 THE CARIBBEAN: Hispanic Caribbean Poetry in the Twenty-First Century
6 US-MEXICO: In the Borders of Form. The Binational Aesthetics of Robin Myers and Violeta Orozco
Part II. Extraterritorialities
7 GERMANY: Latin American Poetry in Germany. Poetic Practices across National Borders (2001 - 2024)
8 SPAIN: "Mom is Non-Eu": Twenty-First Century Latin American Poets in Spain
9 UK: Poets in No-Man's Land: Latin American Poets in the UK
10 USA/New York: Identities, Institutions and Aesthetics: Spanish-Language Poetry in Early Twenty-First Century New York City
Part III. Tendencies
11 Ancestral Traditions and Contemporary Poetry in Mexico's Indigenous Languages
12 Behind Closed Doors: Poetry by Prose Writers
13 From Journals to Anthologies: Characteristics of a Twenty-First-Century Phenomenon
14 Insolvent Poetry. Publishing Economics and the Avant-Garde in Latin America
15 Latin American Poetry and Biodiversity
16 Music and Performance: Sense and Nonsense in Contemporary Chilean Poetry
17 Of Anthems, Antennae, and Anthologies: Assessing Twenty-First Century Brazilian Poetry
18 Outlines of Latin American Geopoetics: Territorio, tierra, texto, tejido
19 Poetic Activism in Twenty-First Century Latin America
20 Poetry, Orality and Performance in the Contemporary Maya World of Guatemala
21 Poetry's Apology for a Dystopian Future: On Drug Apology by Mario Verdugo
22 Queering the Empire: Gender Diversity and Decoloniality in Twenty-First Century Latin American Poetry
23 The Staging of Language: Transhemispheric Convergences Between the Writers' Forum in the UK and the Foro de Escritores in Chile
24 This is (Not) a Poem: Belen Gache's Errant Digital Poetics
25 Tu aliento de bauxita. Tus brazos de amianto: Geological Subjectivities, Labor and Extractivism in Latin American Poetics of the Mine
Part IV. Figures
26 "Better Days / are Blooming Beneath the Sidewalk / Where I'm Walking." Displacement, Poetry and Performance in Legna Rodriguez Iglesias's Work
27 From Dispossession to Healing: The Visionary Poetry of Adriana Paredes Pinda
28 Grave Readings: The Illegible Lives of Frank Baez
29 In the Bathtub with Angelica Freitas: A Poet of Dispute and Sharing
30 Noise and Impersonal Memory in The Poetry of Andres Anwandter
31 On the Outskirts of Literature: The Dialogic and Critical Poetics of Sara Uribe
32 On Veronica Gerber Bicecci: "Strange Fruits" and "Elusive Forms." Politics and Poetics of Non-Belonging
33 Poetry as a Shelter Language: Natalia Litvinova's Inventive Nostalgia
34 Sergio Raimondi: The Meaning of the Wor(l)d
35 The Inaccessible Archive: The "Black Series" by Carlos Soto Roman
36 Wet Ontology and Mapuche Geomyths in Roxana Miranda Rupailaf
37 Writing from the Hole: The Poetry of Luis Felipe Fabre
