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<blockquote> <p class="quote">"This is a major book for the field of contemporary Latin American poetry, original in its scope, depth, and breadth.... It is a showcase of recent currents of expression in Latin America."</p> <p class="source">—Jacobo Sefamí, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Irvine</p> </blockquote> <p>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.</p> <p>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. Her analysis illuminates the ways in which contemporary issues such as

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Author

Jill S. Kuhnheim

Publisher

Austin: University of Texas Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780292705982

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Sociology

Rating

4 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13