Spanish and Latin American Legacy in North American Poetry and Art

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 Garcia Lorca s poetry, the Spanish Civil War, avant-garde circles, and intercultural and literary translation.