Pablo Neruda and the struggle for political memory

Third World Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1129-1142

  Bleiker, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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POLITICAL DISCOURSE;

EID: 0033395493     PISSN: 01436597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01436599913325     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Thanks to Don Fletcher, Subhash Jaireth and Christine Sylvester for critical comments on an earlier draft of this essay, and to Rodo Paz for discussions about Neruda and Chilean politics that were as stimulating as the remaining aspects of La Posada.
2. Pablo Neruda, 'United Fruit Co', in Canto General, trans Jack Schmitt, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993, p 179.
3. Canto General is usually considered Neruda's most important work, a poetic tour de force that spans all the way from prehistoric America to postwar global politics. The original edition was published in 1950 in Mexico City, where Neruda served as Chile's consul general. For a selection of his poems see Five Decades: Poems 1925-1970, trans B Belitt, New York: Grove Press, 1974.
4. Neruda, 'United Fruit Co', p 179.
5. See Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, 'Can the subaltern speak?', in C Nelson & L Grossberg (eds), Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1988.
6. Neruda, 'To My Party', in Canto General, p 399.
7. Jean Bethke Elshtain, Women and War, New York: Basic Books, 1987, p xiii.
8. Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1994, pp 478-479.
9. Jean Franco, 'Introduction' to Pablo Neruda: Selected Poems, London: Penguin, 1975, p 14.
10. Manuel Durán & Margery Safir, Earth Tones: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1981, p xvii.
11. Neruda, Memoirs, London: Penguin Books, 1978, p 116.
12. Neruda, 'Great Happiness', in Canto General, p 393.
13. Neruda, 'A Few Things Explained', in Residence on Earth, Series III, in Five Decades, p 53.
14. Neruda, 'Towards an Impure Poetry', in Five Decades, p xxi.
15. Neruda, 'A Few Things Explained', p 55.
16. Neruda, Memoirs, p 122.
17. Neruda, 'A Few Things Explained', p 53.
18. D Grünbein, 'Zu Kieseln gehärtet: über das lyrische Sprechen', Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 30 September 1995, p 50; J. Derrida, 'Shibboleth for Paul Celan', trans J Wilner, in A Fioretos (ed) Word Traces: Readings of Paul Celan, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994, pp 3-72.
19. D Grünbein, 'Zu Kieseln gehärtet: über das lyrische Sprechen', Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 30 September 1995, p 50; J. Derrida, 'Shibboleth for Paul Celan', trans J Wilner, in A Fioretos (ed) Word Traces: Readings of Paul Celan, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994, pp 3-72.
20. James Scully, Line Break: Poetry as Social Practice, Seattle WA: Bay Press, 1988, pp 126-127.
21. Neruda, 'I Remember', in Isla Negra: A Notebook, trans A Reid, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970, p 157.
22. Paul Celan, 'Aschenglorie', in Atemwende, Gesammelete Werke, Vol II, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1986, p 72.
23. Neruda, Memoirs, p 267.
24. For a more detailed analysis of Neruda's role during the Spanish Civil War see Durán & Safir, Earth Tones, pp xviii-xx, 74-80; and René de Costa, The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971, pp 92-99.
25. For a more detailed analysis of Neruda's role during the Spanish Civil War see Durán & Safir, Earth Tones, pp xviii-xx, 74-80; and René de Costa, The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971, pp 92-99.
26. Neruda, 'A Few Things Explained', p 57.
27. Neruda, Memoirs, p 294.
28. Durán & Safir, Earth Tones, p 79.
29. Neruda, 'I Remember', p 157.
30. Neruda, 'Great Happiness', p 394.
31. Neruda, Memoirs, pp 125-126.
32. Neruda, 'A Few Things Explained', p 57.
33. Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Poesie and Politik, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1987, p 135.
34. Clémence Greenberg, 'Avant-grade and kitsch', in Cl Harrison & P Wood (eds), Art in Theory: 1900-1990, Oxford: Blackwell, 1992, pp 531-532.
35. Theodor W Adorno, 'Commitment', in Harrison & Wood, Art in Theory, pp 762-764.
36. Neruda, Memoirs, p 265.
37. Neruda, 'Great Happiness', p 393.
38. John Burton, Conflict Resolution: Its Language and Processes, Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 1996, p 10.
39. Neruda, Memoirs, p 198.
40. Neruda, 'Great Happiness', p 393.
41. Neruda, 'Southern Cross, trefoil of aromatic phosphor', in A Hundred Love Sonnets, in Five Decades, p 219.
42. Neruda, 'Semen', in The Hands of Day, in Five Decades, p 329.
43. Neruda, 'Naked you are simple as a hand', in A Hundred Love Sonnets, in Five Decades, p 209.
44. Neruda, 'Ode to ironing', in Full Powers, in Five Decades, p 259.
45. Neruda, Memoirs, p 260.
46. Ibid, p 137.
47. Ibid, p 268.
48. Neruda, 'The Heights of Macchu Picchu', in Canto General, p 42.