Museum of the Americas
Penguin Publishing Group · Paperback · October 2, 2018
Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry Winner of the National Poetry Series Competition, selected by Cornelius Eady--an exploration in verse of imperial appropriation and Mexican American cultural identity "Marvelous, argumentative, and curiosity-provoking" --The New York Times Book Review The poems in J. Michael Martinez's third collection of poetry circle around how the perceived body comes to be coded with the trans-historical consequences of an imperial narrative.
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- Who it’s for
- Readers interested in poetry about imperial appropriation and Mexican American identity
- Themes
- Imperial appropriation, Mexican American cultural identity, Racialized perceptions of the body
- Genres
- Hispanic American Poetry, American Poetry, Hispanic American Studies
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Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry Winner of the National Poetry Series Competition, selected by Cornelius Eady--an exploration in verse of imperial appropriation and Mexican American cultural identity "Marvelous, argumentative, and curiosity-provoking" --The New York Times Book Review The poems in J. Michael Martinez's third collection of poetry circle around how the perceived body comes to be coded with the trans-historical consequences of an imperial narrative.
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Engaging beautiful and otherworldly Mexican casta paintings, morbid photographic postcards depicting the bodies of dead Mexicans, the strange journey of the wood and cork leg of General Santa Anna, and Martinez's own family lineage, Museum of the Americas gives accounts of migrant bodies caught beneath, and fashioned under, a racializing aesthetic gaze. Martinez questions how "knowledge" of the body is organized through visual perception of that body, hypothesizing the corporeal as a repository of the human situation, a nexus of culture. Museum of the Americas' poetic revives and repurposes the persecuted ethnic body from the appropriations that render it an art object and, therefore, diposable.
Where it sits
| Hispanic American Poetry | 97% |
|---|---|
| Hispanic American Studies | 59% |
| American Poetry | 40% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- American Poetry
- Hispanic American Poetry
- Poetry - General Themes
- Authors
- J. Michael Martinez
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- October 2, 2018
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Imperial appropriation · Mexican American cultural identity · Racialized perceptions of the body
- Reading lane
- American Poetry