Modern Poetics and Hemispheric American Cultural Studies [Paperback]

As the world becomes increasingly globalized, the integration of cultures within nations has become more and more relevant. Read takes a poetic approach to the concept of cultural conflict within nations and adds a new perspective that has rarely been seen in debate.Enter the Cannibal: Dependency, Migration and Textuality in William Carlos Williams' Spring and A11 The Reversible World: America as Dissonance in Mario de Andrade's Pauliceia Desvairada Verse Reverse Verse: Fake Autobiographies, Lost Translations, and New Originals of Vicente Huidobro's Alzator Alien Sedition: Anti-Semitism and Censorship in The Cantos of Ezra Pound Bibliography

Read's Modern Poetics and Hemispheric American Cultural Studies accomplishes two interdependent aims. The book provides a theoretically informed rationale for the recent hemispheric turn in American Cultural Studies. It also explains the crucial role that the poetics of translation has played in the emergence of the new field of Hemispheric American Cultural Studies. - Donald E. Pease, Jr., Professor of English and Avalon Foundation Chair of the Humanities, Dartmouth College

JUSTIN READ?is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA.