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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790914303321

Titolo

Acknowledged legislator : critical essays on the poetry of Martín Espada / / edited by Edward J. Carvalho

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-61147-959-2

1-61147-642-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 p.)

Disciplina

811/.54

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

Permissions; Contents; Key to Espada Title Abbreviations: Ordered by Publication History, 1982-2012; Preface; Introduction; I: "My Name Is Espada": Author Profile; Chapter One: Martín Espada; II: "[T]o give history a human face":1 Historical Memory and Political Resistance; Chapter Two: The Republic of Memory; Chapter Three: Martín Espada; Chapter Four: Undoing Macho; Chapter Five: Muse on First; Chapter Six: A Poetry like Ammunition; III: Compañero: Labor Advocacy, Economic Concerns, and Class Consciousness; Chapter Seven: "Heart of Hunger"; Chapter Eight: "[T]he black braid of names"

Chapter Nine: From the Inner City to the Cotton FieldsIV: "The poets must speak":1 Postscripts and Epilogue; Chapter Ten: La tumba de Buenaventura Roig; Chapter Eleven: The Poet Is a Historian, the Poem Is a Record; Chapter Twelve: A Visit to the Bakery; Chapter Thirteen: The Great Bell in Martín Espada's Chest; Works Cited; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Acknowledged Legislator: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martín Espada is the first-ever edited collection on poet and activist Martín Espada. With the aid of contributions by established scholars who have a specialized interest in the poet's life and work, its principal aim is to argue for a long overdue critical awareness of and cultural appreciation for Espada and his body of writing.