Book contents
- A History of Mexican Poetry
- A History of Mexican Poetry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Practice of Epic and Lyric Writing in Colonial Mexico
- Chapter 2 La lírica del Fénix: Sor Juana’s Poetic Legacy
- Chapter 3 The Sound of the Word: Music and Social Transgression in Lyric Poetry from the Colonia Onward
- Chapter 4 We, the Romantics
- Chapter 5 Sentimental Sociabilities: The Young Romantics and Their Long-Lived Widows
- Chapter 6 Modernismo’s Strategic Occidentalism: Notes on Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, Amado Nervo, and José Juan Tablada
- Chapter 7 The Crepusculars: Criollo Modernism and the Invention of the Literary Province
- Chapter 8 Poesía en voz alta: A Trajectory of Poetry and Performance in México
- Chapter 9 The Great Synthesis of the Critical Poets: The Rise of Octavio Paz
- Chapter 10 Octavio Paz and the Institutions of Poetry
- Chapter 11 The Form That Contains Multitudes: The Mexican Long Poem (1924–2020)
- Chapter 12 Radical Freedoms: Neobaroque, Postpoetry
- Chapter 13 The Age of Anthology
- Chapter 14 Twentieth-Century Mexican Poetry: The Popular and the Political
- Chapter 15 Poetry in Indigenous Languages: From the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries
- Chapter 16 Chicanx Poetry: The Living Lyric
- Chapter 17 Racimos: Dissonances in Mexican Poetry of Today
- Index
- References
Chapter 16 - Chicanx Poetry: The Living Lyric
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2024
Book contents
- A History of Mexican Poetry
- A History of Mexican Poetry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Practice of Epic and Lyric Writing in Colonial Mexico
- Chapter 2 La lírica del Fénix: Sor Juana’s Poetic Legacy
- Chapter 3 The Sound of the Word: Music and Social Transgression in Lyric Poetry from the Colonia Onward
- Chapter 4 We, the Romantics
- Chapter 5 Sentimental Sociabilities: The Young Romantics and Their Long-Lived Widows
- Chapter 6 Modernismo’s Strategic Occidentalism: Notes on Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, Amado Nervo, and José Juan Tablada
- Chapter 7 The Crepusculars: Criollo Modernism and the Invention of the Literary Province
- Chapter 8 Poesía en voz alta: A Trajectory of Poetry and Performance in México
- Chapter 9 The Great Synthesis of the Critical Poets: The Rise of Octavio Paz
- Chapter 10 Octavio Paz and the Institutions of Poetry
- Chapter 11 The Form That Contains Multitudes: The Mexican Long Poem (1924–2020)
- Chapter 12 Radical Freedoms: Neobaroque, Postpoetry
- Chapter 13 The Age of Anthology
- Chapter 14 Twentieth-Century Mexican Poetry: The Popular and the Political
- Chapter 15 Poetry in Indigenous Languages: From the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries
- Chapter 16 Chicanx Poetry: The Living Lyric
- Chapter 17 Racimos: Dissonances in Mexican Poetry of Today
- Index
- References
Summary
This comprehensive review of Chicanx poetry considers the lyric poetry of Greater Mexico as an ongoing evolution of and conversation with varied poetic traditions at the crossroads of geopolitical, cultural, and expressive exchange. This chapter addresses this arc, beginning with oral forms such as the corrido, and examines the ascendency of poetry in the early borderlands press, which was anchored by colonial New Spanish lyric poetry. The focus then turns to the flourishinging of Chicano/a/x poetry in the 1960s through the 1980s via the establishment of Chicano/a/x publication outlets and independent printing presses as well as through Chicano/a/x-specific literary prizes. The chapter concludes by considering the form’s coevolution with Chicano/a/x identity and politics to the present day, including a return to oral forms such as slam poetry, and its evolving relationship with other Latino/a/x cultural productions.
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