Hemispheric Solidarities

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harris Feinsod
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
Langston Hughes ◽  
William Carlos Williams ◽  
Popular Front ◽  
Pablo Neruda ◽  
Racial Democracy ◽  
Good Neighbor

This chapter introduces the unlikely roles poets played at the center of hemispheric cultural diplomacy initiatives in 1938–1945, the years when Good Neighbor diplomacy was motivated by a broad antifascist coalition. The chapter discusses major diplomat-poets like William Carlos Williams, Pablo Neruda, Archibald MacLeish, and Langston Hughes, and compares these writers to Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos, Ecuadorian Consul General Jorge Carrera Andrade, soldier-poet Lysander Kemp, and others who coalesced around the anthologies, translations, and congresses of Good Neighbor initiatives. Borrowing metaphors of bridging and broadcasting from new infrastructures of hemispheric modernization, and invoking strategies of apostrophic address to an impossibly large hemispheric public, Good Neighbor poetry promoted Popular Front antifascism, but also enabled advocates of decolonial politics, racial democracy, and international feminism.

From Carolina to Loíza: race, place and Puerto Rican racial democracy

Identities ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 616-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Racial Democracy

Disaster Destinations, 1948–1960

2018 ◽  
pp. 72-97
Author(s):  
Mark Rice
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
State Support ◽  
Machu Picchu ◽  
Global Institutions ◽  
Transnational Connections ◽  
Good Neighbor ◽  
The Cold War

This chapter investigates how Cusco tourism navigated three crises: the end of Good Neighbor cultural diplomacy at the start of the Cold War, the withdrawal of state support for tourism development, and a destructive earthquake in 1950. Cusco’s tourism backers used their transnational connections to new global institutions like UNESCO as well as earthquake recovery funds to sustain tourism in the region and lay the foundation for a travel boom in the next decades. However, such efforts promoted controversial reconstruction techniques at Machu Picchu and failed to address Cusco’s growing agrarian and economic crises.

The Poetry of the Americas

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harris Feinsod
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
The United States ◽  
Langston Hughes ◽  
Charles Olson ◽  
Ernesto Cardenal ◽  
Heberto Padilla ◽  
Good Neighbor

The Poetry of the Americas offers an expansive, detailed history of relations among poets in the United States and Latin America, spanning three decades from the Good Neighbor diplomacy of World War II through the Cold War cultural policies of the late 1960s. Connecting works by Martín Adán, Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Jorge Luis Borges, Julia de Burgos, Ernesto Cardenal, Jorge Carrera Andrade, Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes, José Lezama Lima, Pablo Neruda, Charles Olson, Octavio Paz, Heberto Padilla, Wallace Stevens, Derek Walcott, William Carlos Williams, and many others, Feinsod reveals how poets of many nations imagined a “poetry of the Americas” that linked multiple cultures, even as it reflected the inequities of the inter-American political system. This account encompasses a rich contextual study of the state-sponsored institutions and the countercultural networks that sustained this poetry, from Nelson Rockefeller’s Office of the Coordinator for Inter-American Affairs to the mid-1960s avant-garde scene in Mexico City. This innovative literary-historical project enables new readings of such canonical poems as Stevens’s “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction” and Neruda’s “The Heights of Macchu Picchu,” but it positions these alongside lesser-known poetry, translations, anthologies, literary journals, and private correspondences culled from library archives across the Americas. The Poetry of the Americas thus broadens the horizons of reception and mutual influence—and of formal, historical, and political possibility—through which we encounter midcentury American poetry, recasting traditional categories of “US” or “Latin American” literature within a truly hemispheric vision.

Book Reviews

1999 ◽  
Vol 73 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 111-173
Author(s):  
Redactie KITLV
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
The United States ◽  
Agrarian Change ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Good Neighbor Policy ◽  
Black America ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Good Neighbor

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