Beyond the page
Subtitle: poetry and performance in Spanish America
By: Jill S. Kuhnheim
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780816530809
Subjects: History and criticism; Spanish American poetry; Literature and society
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: A renovating return to roots; title: Recitation and declamation: public readings of shifting authority and modernity; title: Performing racial, gendered, and transnational identities in poetry in the 1930s-60s; title: Performing poetry beyond the avant-garde; title: Aesthetic experiment and political commitment: promulgating poetry in streets, cafés, on cds and the internet; title: Conclusion: Voice and the public space of poetry.