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Chapter 13 - The Age of Anthology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2024

By
Alejandro Higashi
Edited by
José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra ,
Anna M. Nogar  and
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra
Affiliation:
University of Houston
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Summary

Although the first anthology of Mexican poetry dates from 1833, Alejandro Higashi argued in his seminal volume PM-XXI-360 that the primary role of the anthology in Mexico changed in 1966. Traditionally a genre that presents a selection of previous work shaped by a certain notion of taste, the anthology took on an overtly prescriptive role with the first edition of Poesía en movimiento, edited by Octavio Paz, Alí Chumacero, José Emilio Pacheco, and Homero Aridjis. This text has remained in print ever since, and has privileged a practice of “demanding poetry” that has been taken up by later anthologies. The chapter also discusses the “cloning lab” of the anthology and how this phenomenon can be discerned in the profusion of anthologies published since the 1980s.

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Anthologycanon formationPoesía en movimientoexperimental poetryliterary history.
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A History of Mexican Poetry , pp. 242 - 257
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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