Still Nowhere in an Empty Vastness (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781934819555)

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Art. Latinx Studies. STILL NOWHERE IN AN EMPTY VASTNESS is a collection of essays and manifestos engaging hemispheric desires and borderland eventualities in the geopolitical imagination of the Americas. The book enlivens a capacious Latinx poetics, spanning to include 16th- and 17th-century imperial accounts, 20th-century images of Mexico pictured by U.S. artists and writers, the neo-baroque pageantry of Jos Lezama Lima in post-Revolution Havana, as well as contemporary poets Reina Mar a Rodriguez, from Cuba; Mexican fabulist Pablo Helguera; and Chicano multimedia wordsmith Harry Gamboa Jr., from Los Angeles. Explored also are many-sided masculinities, from conquistador castaway Cabeza de Vaca, stripped and disempowered in the New World; Lezama Lima's prison baroque of syntactically queer desire; George Oppen's craftsmanship manhood; Jay Wright's Yoruba and Toltec body-doubles, hidden figures of exile and self-foreignness; and the man-child constructed in the media spectacle of modern castaway Eli n Gonz lez. These essays configure a poetics of the Americas, mirror-occasions for reflecting the fear and fantasies prompted by metaphors of occupation, displacement, and counter-conquest.

Author: Roberto Tejada
ISBN-10: 1934819557
ISBN-13: 9781934819555
Publisher: Noemi Press
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2019
Pages: 258
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.00h x 6.10w x 0.60d