Description
Book SynopsisOn 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
Table of Contents
Introduction Part 1: Poetry, Politics, Performance 1. Rhetoric and Ideology in Grassroots Memorials and Official Monuments 2. Circulation and Performance in Memorial and Media Sites 3. Archives and Grassroots Anthologies: Preservation, Social Action, and Affect Part 2: Poets, Cultural Politics, and Crisis 4. Body, Affect, Flesh 5. Pixel, Bar Code, Algorithm Conclusions Notes Works Cited Index
