modern poetics and hemispheric american cultural studies
p with the rise of globalization the american hemisphere has been integrated economically and politically . but what is the role of culture in this new integration to what extent do the americas share a common culture this book starts from the premise that cultural conflict is inherent to all american cultures . thus the only way to study national cultures hemispherically is to examine the inter cultural collisions both between american nations and within them . through readings of key 20th century texts read argues that such conflicts form a distinctly poetic process . modernist and vanguardista poets sought to make the language of cultural conflict & 8211 ; translation & 8211 ; into a concrete reality in its own right the language of the americas .