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Author:

Kuhnheim, Jill S.

Title:

Beyond the Page : Poetry and Performance in Spanish America / Jill S. Kuhnheim.

Publisher:

University of Arizona Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

viii, 174 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Spanish American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
Literature and society--Latin America.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: A renovating return to roots -- Recitation and declamation: public readings of shifting authority and modernity -- Performing racial, gendered, and transnational identities in poetry in the 1930s-60s -- Performing poetry beyond the avant-garde -- Aesthetic experiment and political commitment: promulgating poetry in streets, caf©♭s, on cds and the internet -- Conclusion: Voice and the public space of poetry.

Summary:

"Beyond the Page examines the performance of poetry to show how it travels outside of writing, eventually becoming part of the cultural consciousness. Exploring a range of performances from early twentieth-century recitations to twenty-first-century film, CDs, and Internet renditions, Beyond the Page offers analytic tools to chart poetry beyond printed texts"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0816530807 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780816530809 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)861744768

LCCN:

2013034471

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)