Poetry and Crisis - Cultural Politics and Citizenship in the Wake of the Madrid Bombings

Poetry and Crisis argues that the 2004 terrorist attacks in Madrid marked a critical turning point in Spanish society, with poetry taking a unique role in reflecting new political and cultural realities.

List of contents

Introduction
Part 1: Poetry, Politics, Performance
1. Rhetoric and Ideology in Grassroots Memorials and Official Monuments
2. Circulation and Performance in Memorial and Media Sites
3. Archives and Grassroots Anthologies: Preservation, Social Action, and Affect

Part 2: Poets, Cultural Politics, and Crisis
4. Body, Affect, Flesh
5. Pixel, Bar Code, Algorithm

Conclusions
Notes
Works Cited
Index

About the author

Jill Robbins is a professor emerita in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts at the University of California, Merced.

Summary

Poetry and Crisis argues that the 2004 terrorist attacks in Madrid marked a critical turning point in Spanish society, with poetry taking a unique role in reflecting new political and cultural realities.

Product details

• Authors: Jill Robbins
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781487504731
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-0473-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Toronto Iberic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Spanien, Ethische Themen und Debatten, Terrorismus, bewaffneter Kampf, Institutionen und Gelehrtengesellschaften, allgemein, Studium Generale