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1 online resource (357 pages) |
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Permissions -- Contents -- Key to Espada Title Abbreviations: Ordered by Publication History, 1982-2012 -- Preface -- Introduction -- I: "My Name Is Espada": Author Profile -- Chapter One: Martín Espada -- II: "[T]o give history a human face":1 Historical Memory and Political Resistance -- Chapter Two: The Republic of Memory -- Chapter Three: Martín Espada -- Chapter Four: Undoing Macho -- Chapter Five: Muse on First -- Chapter Six: A Poetry like Ammunition -- III: Compañero: Labor Advocacy, Economic Concerns, and Class Consciousness -- Chapter Seven: "Heart of Hunger" -- Chapter Eight: "[T]he black braid of names" -- Chapter Nine: From the Inner City to the Cotton Fields -- IV: "The poets must speak":1 Postscripts and Epilogue -- Chapter Ten: La tumba de Buenaventura Roig -- Chapter Eleven: The Poet Is a Historian, the Poem Is a Record -- Chapter Twelve: A Visit to the Bakery -- Chapter Thirteen: The Great Bell in Martín Espada's Chest -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Contributors |
| Summary |
"Acknowledged Legislator: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martín Espada" is the first-ever edited collection on poet and activist Martín Espada. With the aid of contributions by established scholars who have a specialized interest in the poet's life and work, its principal aim is to argue for a long overdue critical awareness of and cultural appreciation for Espada and his body of writing |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Espada, Martín, 1957- -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Espada, Martín, 1957- fast (OCoLC)fst00227177 |
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English.
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Languages & Literatures.
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American Literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Azank, Natasha
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Croft, Andy
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Dowdy, Michael
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Hernández, Carmen Dolores
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Larochelle, Jeremy
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Nelson, Peter
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Pérez-Bustillo, Camilo
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Salgado, César A
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Salo, Eric B
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Sarmiento, Oscar
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Stanchich, Maritza
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Uchmanowicz, Pauline
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| ISBN |
9781611476422 |
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1611476429 |
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