I am well into Josefina Saldaña Portillo’s book The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas in the Age of Development. This is a fascinating study, it lays the groundwork for exactly what I would like to discuss in my thesis with regards to the idea of revolution and love. Saldaña-Portillo discusses the underlying thread of subjectivism in both the [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Subjectivity
Posted in Uncategorized on February 12, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Why Poetry? Why?
Posted in Uncategorized on February 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Is poetry a useful medium for expressing political and social realities? This was one of the questions on the exam which I am still trying to find an adequate and satisfying answer for. I get the feeling that my dissertation will end up being an attempt to “salvage” the reputation of socially committed poetry by [...]
