Poetry and Crisis: Cultural Politics and Citizenship in the Wake of the Madrid Bombings

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Jill Robbins

Poetry and Crisis

Cultural Politics and Citizenship in the Wake of the Madrid Bombings

Jill Robbins

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English

University of Toronto Press
23 January 2020

General studies; Institutions & learned societies: general; Material culture; Social interaction; Ethical issues & debates

Series: Toronto Iberic

On March 11, 2004, Islamist terrorists carried out a massive bombing on Madrid's largely working-class commuter trains, leaving 191 people dead and more than 1,500 others wounded. This event, known in Spain as 11-M, was the second of three highly visible jihadist attacks on the West between 2001 and 2005, and the first in Europe, occurring just days before the national elections in Spain.

Arguing that 11-M marked a critical turning point in Spanish society, this book reveals how poetry played a unique role and reflected a new political and cultural sensibility defined by informal and non-hierarchical networks of communication and memorialization. After the attacks, poems circulated in public spaces in unexpected ways, creating links and relationships that were binding: they were inscribed on banners and monuments; musicalized in anthems, protest songs, and hip-hop music; reproduced on manifestos and blogs; sent by email and text; scribbled on scraps of paper and posted on walls; performed publicly; and painted as graffiti. These forms of expression also resonated strongly with Spanish poets who had already been exploring the possibilities of ethical engagement and aesthetic creation. Poetry and Crisis explores how this essentially poetic sensibility emerged from tragedy, laying the groundwork for similar kinds of affective and grassroots mobilization that continue to grow in Europe today.

By: Jill Robbins
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 231mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 420g
ISBN: 9781487504731
ISBN 10: 148750473X
Series: Toronto Iberic
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 23 January 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jill Robbins is a professor emerita in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts at the University of California, Merced.

Reviews for Poetry and Crisis: Cultural Politics and Citizenship in the Wake of the Madrid Bombings

"""This is an engaging, intelligent, and timely reflection on the role of poetry at times of personal and social crisis."" --L. Elena Delgado, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ""With sound analysis of lyric texts and performances, Poetry and Crisis sheds revealing light on how literary devices, including rhetorical questions, apostrophes, and metaphors, must be read with an attentive ear to their public reception and socio-cultural context, one here that is saturated by collective grief and trauma."" --Daniel Aguirre-Oteiza, Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University"