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16 - U.S. Latino/a Poetry

from Part III - Diversity and Heterogeneity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2018

Stephen M. Hart
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University College London
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This chapter maps a literary history of U.S. Latino/a poetry, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the twenty-first century. Examining how Latino poets have adopted Latin American symbols and traditions, the chapter argues that understanding Latino poetry requires knowledge of Latin American poetries and histories. To catalogue Latino poetry’s range of forms and practices, the chapter offers a hemispheric lens that foregrounds historical relations and migratory routes between north and south. After defining Latino poetry’s multiple genealogies and languages, the chapter discusses the development of Chicano (Mexican-American) and Nuyorican (New York Puerto Rican) poetries during the “movement” era (mid-Sixties to mid-Seventies). Then it sketches the parameters of the “post-movement” era (Eighties and Nineties), when Latino poetry expanded, often via feminist and queer paradigms, to address conflicts in Central America and cultures of the U.S-Mexico border. The chapter ends by outlining the aesthetic range of contemporary Latino poetry, with micro-sketches of poets whose hemispheric literary practices include poetry, translation, criticism, teaching, and editing. The chapter discusses major figures such as Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales, Pedro Pietri, Juan Felipe Herrera, Martín Espada, Lorna Dee Cervantes, and Gloria Anzaldúa, and emerging major figures including Urayoán Noel, Daniel Borzutzky, and Carmen Giménez Smith.
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Print publication year: 2018

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