The Spanish And Latin American Legacy In North American Poetry And Art

Resumen del libro

This book challenges narratives of one-directional cultural flows from Europe to the Americas. The essays’ varied topics and methods map a richly innovative Spanish-American imaginary emerging through multidirectional transatlantic and Pan-American axes of influence in Modernist to contemporary poetry and art. Migration, friendship, and little magazines open new horizons to renegotiate colonial hierarchies. Intercultural dialogue renders languages and literary/artistic traditions novel sounding boards, inspiring Chicano and Latinx consciousness, reinventions of gender and sexuality, and formal and linguistic experimentation. The diverse sites of intercultural dialogue include García Lorca’s poetry, the Spanish Civil War, avant-garde circles, and intercultural and literary translation.

Índice

 Part I Transatlantic Axis of Influence

• 1. Poeta Más Allá de Nueva York: Federico García Lorca’s Presence in Contemporary Chicanø Literature
• 2. “Oh Lorca, Lorca — / shining singer:” William Carlos Williams in Dialogue with Federico García Lorca’s Romances
• 3. Social Estrangement and Urban Eroticism in the New York Poetry of Frank O’Hara and Federico García Lorca
• 4. The Yellow Kimono: Retrato de Federico García Lorca by Gregorio Toledo
• 5. Writing Guernica, Dancing Spain: How US Poets and Artists Reacted to the Spanish Civil War and the War’s Legacy in the 20th Century
• Part II Pan-American Axis of Influence
• 6. The Mexican Connection: Covarrubias, de Zayas, and Tamayo in New York 1920–1945
• 7. Some Notes on the Spanish and Latin American Cultural Traditions in the Poetics of Denise Levertov
• 8. Mexico as Site of Gender Critique in Contemporary US Women’s Poetry: Denise Levertov’s Life in the Forest in Context
• 9. Mark Strand and Octavio Paz: The Universality of Poetry, or a Friendship in Translation
• Coda
• 10. Interview with Juan Felipe Herrera
• List of Figures
• Notes on Contributors
• Index