Modern Poetics and Hemispheric American Cultural Studies

1. Front Matter

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2. Enter the Cannibal: Dependency, Migration, and Textuality in William Carlos Williams’s Spring and All

   • Justin Read

   Pages 1-57

3. The Reversible World: America as Dissonance in Mário de Andrade’s Paulicéia desvairada

   • Justin Read

   Pages 59-102

4. Verse Reverse Verse: Fake Autobiographies, Lost Translations, and New Originals of Vicente Huidobro’s Altazor

   • Justin Read

   Pages 103-155

5. Alien Sedition: Anti-Semitism and Censorship in The Cantos of Ezra Pound

   • Justin Read

   Pages 157-195

6. Back Matter

   Pages 197-228

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As the world becomes increasingly globalized, the integration of cultures within nations has become more and more relevant. Read takes a poetic approach to the concept of cultural conflict within nations and adds a new perspective that has rarely been seen in debate.

• America
• Cultural Studies
• migration
• poetics

"Read's Modern Poetics and Hemispheric American Cultural Studies accomplishes two interdependent aims. The book provides a theoretically informed rationale for the recent hemispheric turn in American Cultural Studies. It also explains the crucial role that the poetics of translation has played in the emergence of the new field of Hemispheric American Cultural Studies." - Donald E. Pease, Jr., Professor of English and Avalon Foundation Chair of the Humanities, Dartmouth College

JUSTIN READ is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA.

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