Title In Visible Movement : Nuyorican poetry from the Sixties to slam / Urayoán Noel

Published Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (269 pages) Series Contemporary North American Poetry Series Contemporary North American poetry series. Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction -- Nuyorican Counterpolitics; One -- The Unseen Scene: Movement Poetics and the In/Visibility of Diaspora; Two -- Resiting the Street: Performance and Institutional Politics in and beyond the Nuyorican Poets Cafe; Three -- Embodied or Incorporated? : From Nuyorican Poetry to U.S. Latino/a Literature; Four -- Counter/Public Address: Nuyorican Poets in the Slam Era; Afterword: Representing the City; Notes; Bibliography; Index Summary Since the 1960s, Nuyorican poets have explored and performed Puerto Rican identity both on and off the page. Emerging within and alongside the civil rights movements of the 1960s, the foundational Nuyorican writers sought to counter the ethnic/racial and institutional invisibility of New York City Puerto Ricans by documenting the reality of their communities in innovative and sometimes challenging ways. Since then, Nuyorican poetry has entered the U.S. Latino literary canon and has gained prominence in light of the spoken-word revival of the past two decades, a movement spearheaded by the Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Nuyorican Poets Cafe. SUBJECT Nuyorican Poets Cafe fast Subject American poetry -- Puerto Rican authors -- History and criticism American poetry -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism American poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life Puerto Ricans in literature. Identity (Psychology) in literature. City and town life in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- Hispanic American. American poetry American poetry -- Puerto Rican authors City and town life in literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Literature Puerto Ricans in literature Puerto Ricans -- Intellectual life SUBJECT New York (N.Y.) -- In literature Subject New York (State) -- New York Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781609382544 1609382544

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