Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Rereading the Colonial Archive
- Part II The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- 14 Oratory, Memoir, and Theater
- 15 Literary Revolutions in the Borderlands
- 16 Making It Nuevo
- 17 The Archive and Afro-Latina/o Field-Formation
- 18 Floricanto en Aztlán
- 19 “The Geography of Their Complexion”
- 20 Cuban American Counterpoint
- 21 Latina/o Theatre and Performance in the Context of Social Movements
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
16 - Making It Nuevo
Latina/o Modernist Poetics Remake High Euro-American Modernism
from Part III - Negotiating Literary Modernity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2018
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Rereading the Colonial Archive
- Part II The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- 14 Oratory, Memoir, and Theater
- 15 Literary Revolutions in the Borderlands
- 16 Making It Nuevo
- 17 The Archive and Afro-Latina/o Field-Formation
- 18 Floricanto en Aztlán
- 19 “The Geography of Their Complexion”
- 20 Cuban American Counterpoint
- 21 Latina/o Theatre and Performance in the Context of Social Movements
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
In the early to mid-twentieth century, the transnational, multilingual discourse of literary innovation characterized as modernism instigated a remarkably diverse range of aesthetic and philosophical inquiry in which U.S. Latina/o poets had a compelling role. While concurrent avant-garde movements in Europe and the Americas shared certain highly visible reactionary principles, the innovative impulse of modernisms coupled with the persistence of concepts such as national literature, zeitgeist, and lingua franca were expanded by Latina/o poets of the time, poets whose aesthetics were grounded in their cultural and personal experiences as Latinas/os. This essay particularly focuses on three Latina/o poets and their unique contributions to modernist poetry and poetics--William Carlos Williams, Salomón de la Selva, and Julia de Burgos--especially examining how their aesthetics, politicized by their social and ethnic consciousness, challenged not only the inherited standards of Western tradition but also the emergent trends of modernism itself.
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- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature , pp. 353 - 370Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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