{"id":980,"date":"2010-12-10T09:53:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T17:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cllas.uoregon.edu\/?p=980"},"modified":"2011-01-19T10:08:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T18:08:06","slug":"cities-in-ruins-the-politics-of-modern-poetics%e2%80%94a-new-book-by-cecilia-enjuto-rangel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cllas.uoregon.edu\/cities-in-ruins-the-politics-of-modern-poetics%e2%80%94a-new-book-by-cecilia-enjuto-rangel\/","title":{"rendered":"Cities in Ruins: The Politics of Modern Poetics\u2014a new book by Cecilia Enjuto Rangel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/cllas.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Cities-in-Ruins.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-981\" title=\"Cities in Ruins\" src=\"http:\/\/cllas.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Cities-in-Ruins.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Cities in Ruins: The Politics of Modern Poetics<\/em><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>by Cecilia Enjuto Rangel<\/div>\n<div>(Purdue University Press, November 2010)<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">a<\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/rl.uoregon.edu\/people\/faculty\/profiles\/enjuto\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Cecilia Enjuto Rangel<\/a> is a University of Oregon assistant professor of Spanish, Romance Languages, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Latino\/a and Latin American Studies.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">a<\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepress.purdue.edu\/titles\/format\/9781557535719\" target=\"_blank\">Publisher&#8217;s Book Synopsis<\/a><!--more--><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">a<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u201cModern poetry on ruins performs an awakening call to the lurking real, to the violence of history in the making. The attacks in New York on September 11, 2001, and in Madrid on March 11, 2004, provoked diverse political reactions, but the imminence of the ruins triggered a collective historical awakening. The awakening can take the shape of bombs in Kabul and Baghdad, or political change in government policies, but it is also palpable when poetry voices a critique of the technological warfare and its versions of progress.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">a<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u201dContemporary events and the modern ruins are reminiscent of the political impact that the Spanish Civil War and the two World Wars had on poetry. In Cities in Ruins: The Politics of Modern Poetics, Cecilia Enjuto Rangel argues that the portrayal in poetry of the modern city as a disintegrated, ruined space is part of a critique of the visions of progress and the historical process of modernization that developed during the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. 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