{"product_id":"whitman-cannonball-puebla","title":"Whitman. Cannonball. Puebla.","description":"\u003cb\u003ePoetic fables that consider a future Greater Americas that blends the cultures of peoples across the hemisphere.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This four-part collection of poetic fables engages the emerging field of global-poetics through Hispano-Americano lenses. Amid global crises between states, and cultural destabilization manifesting across mass popular culture and literature, \u003ci\u003eWHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUEBLA.\u003c\/i\u003e sets out to invigorate conversation about how the United States might adapt to a wider hemispheric consciousness. Toscano's poems present a cultural landscape where the Anglo-capitalist outlook is tempered-if not subsumed-by a Greater Americas \"Salamanca Humanism,\" which was the basis for the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The book is divided into four sections that develop the idea of a Greater Americas as hinging on negotiation between Anglo and Hispano values, consider a potential catastrophic Anglo-American imperialism, imagine life in a Post-Empire crisis, and compose allegories about the historical consciousness of a people oversaturated with media.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rodrigo Toscano","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47286169075948,"sku":"9781632431745","price":21.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781632431745.jpg?v=1770437986","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/whitman-cannonball-puebla","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}