Overview
- Provides fresh perspectives on the connection between literature and public space through readings of contemporary Argentine poetry
- Brings together a range of significant contemporary poets, such as Sergio Raimondi, Andi Nachon, Ezequiel Zaidenwerg, Martín Gambarotta, and Marina Yuszczuk, with original translations of their works
- Challenges established ideas about the "death" of the lyric by examining the social function of poetry, particularly in terms of publishing, feminism, and cultural production.
Part of the book series: Literatures of the Americas (LOA)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book addresses the connection between political themes and literary form in the most recent Argentine poetry. Ben Bollig uses the concepts of “lyric” and “state” as twin coordinates for both an assessment of how Argentinian poets have conceived a political role for their work and how poems come to speak to us about politics. Drawing on concepts from contemporary literary theory, this striking study combines textual analysis with historical research to shed light on the ways in which new modes of circulation help to shape poetry today.
Reviews
“Ben Bollig’s book, on the recent political turn in Contemporary Argentine poetry, is at once authoritative, immensely knowledgeable, and readable. Its strength lies in a unique combination of skills: a well-digested and unobtrusive understanding of Latin American Cultural Studies; a confidently detailed grasp of Argentine politics; extensive research on circumstances of production, circulation, networks, and genre; and, crucially, close, intelligently contextualized, and subtle textual analysis of the works of five poets.” (Steven Boldy, Professor of Latin American Literature, University of Cambridge, UK)
“Ben Bollig poses a grand question for all of us: why does poetry matter? Focusing on Argentine poetry of the last two decades, Bollig expertly brings his inquiry to the doorstep of the political and, indeed, tests the ways in which contemporary issues--especially the legacy of dictatorship and the financial crisis of 2001—weigh upon the literary text. Acutely aware of the circulation of poetry and poets—through web sites, pop-up movements, and performance in public places—Bollig intertwines these stagings with a detailed and lucid account of five experimental writers of recent years. This is an ambitious study elucidating a cultural project that we won’t want to overlook.” (Francine Masiello, Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish, University of California, Berkeley, USA)Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Ben Bollig is Professor of Spanish-American Literature at Oxford University, UK and an editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. His previous books include Néstor Perlongher and Modern Argentine Poetry: Displacement, Exile, Migration. He is the translator of Cristian Aliaga’s The Foreign Passion (Influx Press).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Politics and Public Space in Contemporary Argentine Poetry
Book Subtitle: The Lyric and the State
Authors: Ben Bollig
Series Title: Literatures of the Americas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58859-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59673-4Published: 28 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95558-9Published: 27 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58859-3Published: 06 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2634-601X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6028
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 279
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, North American Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Literary History