Beyond the Page: Poetry and Performance in Spanish America

Contents

Acknowledgments vii Introduction: A Renovating Return to Roots 3 1. Recitation and Declamation: Public Readings of Shifting Authority and Modernity 17 2. Performing Racial, Gendered, and Transnational Identities in Poetry in the 1930s–1960s 47 3. Performing Poetry Beyond the Avant-Garde 79 4. Aesthetic Experiment and Political Commitment: Promulgating Poetry in Streets, Cafés, on CDs, and on the Internet 109 Conclusion: Voice and the Public Space of Poetry 138 Appendix: “TwoMilMex” 145 Notes 149 Bibliography 157 Index 169 Contents ...