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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789289303321

Autore

Kuhnheim Jill S.

Titolo

Beyond the page : poetry and performance in Spanish America / / Jill S. Kuhnheim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, Arizona : , : University Of Arizona Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8165-9896-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 p.)

Disciplina

861

Soggetti

Spanish American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

Literature and society - Latin America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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, cafes, on cds and the internet -- Conclusion: Voice and the public space of poetry.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--