{"product_id":"broken-souths-michael-dowdy-9780816530298","title":"Broken Souths: Latina\/o Poetic Responses to Neoliberalism and Globalization","description":"\u003ci\u003eBroken Souths\u003c\/i\u003e offers the first in-depth study of the diverse field of contemporary Latina\/o poetry. Its innovative angle of approach puts Latina\/o and Latin American poets into sustained conversation in original and rewarding ways. In addition, author Michael Dowdy presents ecocritical readings that foreground the environmental dimensions of current Latina\/o poetics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDowdy argues that a transnational Latina\/o imaginary has emerged in response to neoliberalism--the free-market philosophy that underpins what many in the northern hemisphere refer to as \"globalization.\" His work examines how poets represent the places that have been \"broken\" by globalization's political, economic, and environmental upheavals. \u003ci\u003eBroken Souths\u003c\/i\u003e locates the roots of the new imaginary in 1968, when the Mexican student movement crested and the Chicano and Nuyorican movements emerged in the United States. It theorizes that Latina\/o poetics negotiates tensions between the late 1960s' oppositional, collective identities and the present day's radical individualisms and discourses of assimilation, including the \"post-colonial,\" \"post-national,\" and \"post-revolutionary.\" Dowdy is particularly interested in how Latina\/o poetics reframes debates in cultural studies and critical geography on the relation between place, space, and nature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBroken Souths\u003c\/i\u003e features discussions of Latina\/o writers such as Victor Hernández Cruz, Martín Espada, Juan Felipe Herrera, Guillermo Verdecchia, Marcos McPeek Villatoro, Maurice Kilwein Guevara, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Jack Agüeros, Marjorie Agosín, Valerie Martínez, and Ariel Dorfman, alongside discussions of influential Latin American writers, including Roberto Bolaño, Ernesto Cardenal, David Huerta, José Emilio Pacheco, and Raúl Zurita.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Dowdy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816530297\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816530298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/21\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.10w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2014","brand":"Michael Dowdy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48517475991807,"sku":"9780816530298","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b937b6ab-e6a3-42cf-9f45-1c131331f1d5.jpg?v=1778731974","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/broken-souths-michael-dowdy-9780816530298","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}