Néstor Perlongher
The Poetic Search for an Argentine Marginal Voice
Distributed for University of Wales Press
256 pages
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5 1/2 x 8 1/2
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Table of Contents

Contents
Series Editors’ Foreword
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Towards a Reading of Perlongher
Introduction: Sex, Drugs, Baroque ’n’ Roll
Perlongher’s Poetic Search
Perlongher and Academe: Potential Critical Risks
Other Critical Approaches to Perlongher
Perlongher and Politics: ’Evita vive’
Methodology
Chapter 2 Perlongher and Territory
Introduction
Border-crossing in Austria-Hungria
The Malvinas Conflict in Perlongher’s Work
Alambres and Exile
Hule: State Power and Territory
Perlongher’s Nomadology
Mystical Territory
Chapter 3 Perlongher and the Avant-garde
Introduction
Perlongher’s Avant-garde Genealogy
The Body and Transgression: Enrique Molina
Nonsense and Faecality: Antonin Artaud
Sex in the City: Oliverio Girondo
Poetic Innovation and Peotic Engagement: Juan Gelman
Perlongher’s Other Genealogy
Expanding the Poetic Lexicon: César Vallejo
Poesía social: Raul González Tuñón
Post-poesía social: Perlongher’s Project
Chapter 4 Perlongher and the Travesti
Introduction
Becoming Evita: Perlongher and Feminism
The Politics of Desire
Grammar and Gender
The Travesti as Micropolitical Resistance
’A Painful Relationship’: Perlongher, Left-wing Politics and its Alternatives
Mysticism and the Travesti
Becoming-woman / Becoming-stuck
Becoming-mystic
Chapter 5 Perlonger’s Barroco
Introduction
Perlongher’s Retrospective Barroco
Neobarroco/Neobarroso/Barroco
The Neobarroco as Movement
Ghetto Slang and Metaphors
The Observational and Abstract Barroco
The Observational Barroco
The Abstract Barroco
On Kitsch in Perlongher
Last Poems: A Different Barroco?
Chapter 6 Perlongher’s Mysticism
Introduction
Mystical Masochism
Mystical Withdrawal
Mystical Teleology
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index
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