Spanish American Poetry at the End of the Twentieth Century

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"Has poetry lost its relevance in the postmodern age, unable to keep pace with other forms of cultural production such as film, mass media, and the Internet? Quite the contrary, argues Jill Kuhnheim in this pathfinding book, which explores how recent Spanish American poetry participates in the fundamental cultural debates of its time." "Using a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, Kuhnheim engages in close readings of numerous poetic works to show how contemporary Spanish American poetry struggles with the divisions between politics and aesthetics and between visual and written images; grapples with issues of ethnic, national, sexual, and urban identities, and incorporates rather than rejects technological innovations and elements from the mass media."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Spanish American poetry,  History and criticism,  Literature and society,  Latin american poetry, history and criticism