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This book challenges narratives of one-directional cultural flows from Europe to the Americas. The essays' varied topics and methods map a richly innovative Spanish-American imaginary emerging through multidirectional transatlantic and Pan-American axes of influence in Modernist to contemporary poetry and art. Migration, friendship, and little magazines open new horizons to renegotiate colonial hierarchies. Intercultural dialogue renders languages and literary/artistic traditions novel sounding boards, inspiring Chicano and Latinx consciousness, reinventions of gender and sexuality, and formal and linguistic experimentation. The diverse sites of intercultural dialogue include García Lorca's poetry, the Spanish Civil War, avant-garde circles, and intercultural and literary translation.
List of contents
Foreword ...................................................................................................................... 7
Acknowledgments ....................................................................................................... 9
Anne Day Dewey, Cristina M. Gámez- Fernández,
and José Manuel Rodríguez Herrera
Introduction: Reflecting on the Legacy of the Pan- American- Spanish Axes of Cultural Influence ...................................................................................... 11
Part I Transatlantic Axis of Influence ..................................................... 27
Manuel M. Martín- Rodríguez
1. Poeta Más Allá de Nueva York: Federico García Lorca's Presence in Contemporary Chicanø Literature ........................................................................ 29
José Manuel Rodríguez Herrera
2. "Oh Lorca, Lorca - / shining singer:" William Carlos Williams in Dialogue with Federico García Lorca's Romances ............................................... 57
Jessica Q. Stark
3. Social Estrangement and Urban Eroticism in the New York Poetry of Frank O'Hara and Federico García Lorca ............................................................. 79
Ángeles Alemán Gómez (translated by Belén Cornejo- Daza)
4. The Yellow Kimono: Retrato de Federico García Lorca by Gregorio Toledo . 93
Laura Hartmann- Villalta
5. Writing Guernica, Dancing Spain: How US Poets and Artists Reacted to the Spanish Civil War and the War's Legacy in the 20th Century ................ 117
Part II Pan- American Axis of Influence .............................................. 135
Fabiola Martínez Rodríguez
6. The Mexican Connection: Covarrubias, de Zayas, and Tamayo in New
York 1920- 1945 ...................................................................................................... 137
Cristina M. Gámez- Fernández
7. Some Notes on the Spanish and Latin American Cultural Traditions
in the Poetics of Denise Levertov ......................................................................... 159
Anne Day Dewey
8. Mexico as Site of Gender Critique in Contemporary US Women's
Poetry: Denise Levertov's Life in the Forest in Context ..................................... 181
Leonor María Martínez Serrano
9. Mark Strand and Octavio Paz: The Universality of Poetry, or a
Friendship in Translation ...................................................................................... 203
Coda ....................................................................................................................... 225
José Manuel Rodríguez Herrera, Manuel M. Martín- Rodríguez,
Anne Day Dewey, and Cristina M. Gámez- Fernández
10. Interview with Juan Felipe Herrera ............................................................... 227
List of Figures .......................................................................................................... 235
Notes on Contributors ........................................................................................... 237
Index ........................................................................................................................ 241
About the author
Anne Day Dewey is Associate Professor of English at Saint Louis University's Madrid Campus, where she also coordinates the Women's and Gender Studies program. Her research focuses on poetry, gender, and ethnicity in post-1945 US literature.
Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández is Senior Lecturer at the Department of English and German of the University of Córdoba, Spain. Her research interests include Postcolonial Literature and Cultural Studies, in particular, issues of vulnerability and precarity.
José Rodríguez Herrera is Senior Lecturer of English at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), where he also coordinates the Film and Literature Master's degree. His main areas of research focus on poetry, film adaptations, and translation studies.
