Broken Souths: Latina/o Poetic Responses to Neoliberalism and Globalization
Nov 2013 · University of Arizona Press
Ebook
279
Pages
About this ebook
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.
Ê
Dowdy argues that a transnational Latina/o imaginary has emerged in response to neoliberalismÑthe free-market philosophy that underpins what many in the northern hemisphere refer to as Òglobalization.Ó His work examines how poets represent the places that have been ÒbrokenÓ by globalizationÕs political, economic, and environmental upheavals. Broken Souths locates the roots of the new imaginary in 1968, when the Mexican student movement crested and the Chicano and Nuyorican movements emerged in the United States. It theorizes that Latina/o poetics negotiates tensions between the late 1960sÕ oppositional, collective identities and the present dayÕs radical individualisms and discourses of assimilation, including the Òpost-colonial,Ó Òpost-national,Ó and Òpost-revolutionary.Ó Dowdy is particularly interested in how Latina/o poetics reframes debates in cultural studies and critical geography on the relation between place, space, and nature.
Ê
Broken Souths features discussions of Latina/o writers such as Victor Hern‡ndez Cruz, Mart’n Espada, Juan Felipe Herrera, Guillermo Verdecchia, Marcos McPeek Villatoro, Maurice Kilwein Guevara, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Jack AgŸeros, Marjorie Agos’n, Valerie Mart’nez, and Ariel Dorfman, alongside discussions of influential Latin American writers, including Roberto Bola–o, Ernesto Cardenal, David Huerta, JosŽ Emilio Pacheco, and Raœl Zurita.
Ê
Dowdy argues that a transnational Latina/o imaginary has emerged in response to neoliberalismÑthe free-market philosophy that underpins what many in the northern hemisphere refer to as Òglobalization.Ó His work examines how poets represent the places that have been ÒbrokenÓ by globalizationÕs political, economic, and environmental upheavals. Broken Souths locates the roots of the new imaginary in 1968, when the Mexican student movement crested and the Chicano and Nuyorican movements emerged in the United States. It theorizes that Latina/o poetics negotiates tensions between the late 1960sÕ oppositional, collective identities and the present dayÕs radical individualisms and discourses of assimilation, including the Òpost-colonial,Ó Òpost-national,Ó and Òpost-revolutionary.Ó Dowdy is particularly interested in how Latina/o poetics reframes debates in cultural studies and critical geography on the relation between place, space, and nature.
Ê
Broken Souths features discussions of Latina/o writers such as Victor Hern‡ndez Cruz, Mart’n Espada, Juan Felipe Herrera, Guillermo Verdecchia, Marcos McPeek Villatoro, Maurice Kilwein Guevara, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Jack AgŸeros, Marjorie Agos’n, Valerie Mart’nez, and Ariel Dorfman, alongside discussions of influential Latin American writers, including Roberto Bola–o, Ernesto Cardenal, David Huerta, JosŽ Emilio Pacheco, and Raœl Zurita.
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 t...
About the author
Michael Dowdy is an assistant professor of English at Hunter College of the City University of New York. He is the author of American Political Poetry into theÊ21st Century and a chapbook of poems, The Coriolis Effect.
Michael Dowdy is an assistant professor of English at Hunter College of the City University of New York. He is the author of American Political Poetry into theÊ21st Century and a chapbook of poems, The Coriolis Effect.
Rate this ebook
Tell us what you think.
Reading information
Smartphones and tablets
Install the Google Play Books app for Android and iPad/iPhone. It syncs automatically with your account and allows you to read online or offline wherever you are.
Laptops and computers
You can listen to audiobooks purchased on Google Play using your computer's web browser.
eReaders and other devices
To read on e-ink devices like Kobo eReaders, you'll need to download a file and transfer it to your device. Follow the detailed Help Center instructions to transfer the files to supported eReaders.
