Beyond the Page : Poetry and Performance in Spanish America /
Beyond the Page 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...
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A renovating return to roots
- Recitation and declamation: public readings of shifting authority and modernity
- Performing racial, gendered, and transnational identities in poetry in the 1930s-60s
- Performing poetry beyond the avant-garde
- Aesthetic experiment and political commitment: promulgating poetry in streets, cafés, on cds and the internet
- Conclusion: Voice and the public space of poetry.