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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kuhnheim, Jill S. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.