STEPHEN M. HART, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry provides historical context on the evolution of the Latin American poetic tradition from the sixteenth century to the present day. It is organized into three parts. Part I provides a comprehensive, chronological survey of Latin American poetry and includes separate chapters on Colonial poetry, Romanticism/modernism, the avant-garde, conversational poetry, and contemporary poetry. Part II contains six succinct essays on the major figures Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Gabriela Mistral, César Vallejo, Pablo Neruda, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and Octavio Paz. Part III analyses specific and distinctive trends within the poetic canon, including women's, LGBT, Quechua, Afro-Hispanic, Latino/a and New Media poetry. This Companion also contains a guide to further reading as well as an essay on the best English translations of Latin American poetry. It will be a key resource for students and instructors of Latin American literature and poetry.
Proposes a comprehensive and up-to-date view of Latin American poetry, including evaluations of twenty-first-century Latin American poetry
Contains a special section on modern trends in Latin American poetry, such as LGBT, Latino/a and New Media poetry
This book has a broader coverage than other companions to Latin American poetry - several essays explore Brazilian as well as Spanish-American poetry
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