Pablo Neruda and the U.S. Culture Industry

Teresa Longo is Associate Professor in Modern Languages at the College of William and Mary. She is a specialist in Latino poetry and Latino literary theory.

• Introduction Poetry Like Wonder Bread: Teresa Longo Part I. Reading Neruda 1. Pablo Neruda, Interpreter of Our Century: Guiseppe Bellini 2. Speak through My Words: The Poetics and Politics of Translating Neruda: Janice A. Jaffe 3. Pablo Neurda: Absence and Presence: The Photograph as Historical Referent: Patricia Santoro 4. Quests for Alternative Cultural Antecedents: The Indigenism of Pablo Neurda, Ernesto Cardenal and Gary Snyder: Jill Kuhnheim Part II. Neruda Reconfigured: Culture, History, and Politics 5. Loving Neruda: Bruce Dean Willis 6. The De-chileanization of Neruda in Il Postino: Irene Hodgson 7. Buying into the Nerudian Condominium or Building Community: Border Culture Reclaims the Past for the New Century: Ann Marie Stock 8. The Poetics of Politics and the Politics of the Poet: Experience and Testimony in Pablo Neruda: Silvia N. Rosman Part III: Linking Theory to Praxis: U.S. Latino Responses 9. Post Wonder Bread: Pablo Neruda in Centerfield? Teresa Longo 10. The Good Liar Meets His Executioners: The Evolution of a Poem: Martin Espada 11. Pablo Neruda's Dilemma: Julio Marzan 12. In Search of Literary Cojones: Pablo Neruda, U.S. Latino Poetry, and the U.S. Literary Canon: Marcos McPeek Villatoro