A History of Mexican Poetry
A History of Mexican Poetry
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GBPCovering Mexican literary history from pre-Columbian literature to the twenty-first-century, including works from Greater Mexico, this book is the most comprehensive study on Mexican poetry available in English. It examines key authors, such as Bernando de Balbuena, Juana de Asbaje, Ramón López Velarde, José Gorostiza, and Octavio Paz, and considers how they should be read today. Individual chapters focus on important movements, poetic forms, and topics, such as epics, lyric poetry, romanticism, modernism, poetry and performance, poetry in indigenous languages, Mexican American and Chicanx poetry, and the relationship between Mexican literature and gender. This book provides a global understanding of Mexican poetry, its institutions and its main authors for students and scholars in any discipline connected to the subject.
- One of the most comprehensive studies on Mexican poetry available in English
- Provides a global understanding of Mexican poetry and an overview of the important authors, movements, poetic forms, and topics in this area
- Includes chapters on areas that are often understudied including the poetry of Greater Mexico (which includes Mexican American and Chicano Production), literature in indigenous languages, the relationship between Mexican literature and gender, and the connections between Mexican poetry with performance
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''A History of Mexican Poetry' should be required reading for instructors, researchers, and students of Mexican cultural studies. It is a field-altering text that affirms the value of diverse and long-ignored artists and mediums while offering new ways to look at those poets already anointed as canon. As such, and by virtue of the scholarly authority of its editors and contributors, the book has the potential to reshape the canon of Mexican poetry, favoring renewal over ossification. It is a fine example of how we might read Mexican poetry (and approach all art, more generally); with more open minds and hearts we can grasp its roots and more fully appreciate the beauty of its flowering.' Daniel Cooper, Modern Philology
Product details
March 2024Hardback
9781108831451
354 pages
235 × 159 × 26 mm
0.68kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction. José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra, Anna M. Nogar and Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
- 1. The practice of epic and lyric writing in colonial Mexico Jorge Téllez
- 2. La lírica del Fénix: Sor Juana's poetic legacy Anna M. Nogar
- 3. The sound of the word: music and social transgression in lyric poetry from the colonia onward Jesús Ramos Kittrell
- 4. We, the romantics José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra
- 5. Sentimental sociabilities: the young romantics and their long-lived widows Lilia Granillo Vázquez
- 6. Modernismo's strategic occidentalism. Notes on Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, Amado Nervo, and José Juan Tablada Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
- 7. The crepusculars: Criollo modernism and the invention of the literary province Luis Vicente de Aguinaga
- 8. Poesía en voz alta: a trajectory of poetry and performance in México Jill S. Kuhnheim
- 9. The great synthesis of the critical poets: the rise of paz Anthony Stanton
- 10. Octavio paz and the institutions of poetry Ángel M. Díaz
- 11. The form that contains multitudes: the Mexican long poem (1924-2020) Tamara R. Williams
- 12. Radical freedoms: neobaroque, Postpoetry Jacobo Sefami
- 13. The age of Anthology Alejandro Higashi
- 14. Twentieth-century Mexican poetry: the popular and the political Seminario de Investigación en Poesía Mexicana Contemporánea
- 15. Poetry in indigenous languages: from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries Mónica Quijano Velasco
- 16. Chicanx poetry: the living lyric Anita Huízar-Hernández
- 17. Racimos: dissonances in Mexican poetry of today Cristián Gómez Olivares
- Index.
