Rachel Galvin

Bio

Rachel Galvin is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She is the author of a book of poems, Pulleys & Locomotion, and a chapbook, Zoetrope, and translator of Raymond Queneau’s Hitting the Streets, which won the Scott Moncrieff Prize for French Translation. With Bonnie Costello, she co-edited the collection Auden at Work (Palgrave, 2015).

Contributions

Cannibalizing Modern Poetry in the Americas

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Brazilian Modernist Oswald De Andrade adapts a line from Shakespeare, “Tupi or not Tupi, that is the question,” in his 1928 “Cannibalist Manifesto.” [1] The rest of the manifesto is in Brazilian Portuguese. Is this recycling of Shakespeare part of the search for cultural identity—a sign of the fraught relationship of the indigenous to the nation—or is it just wordplay? I asked this question in my seminar “Law of the Cannibal: Trans-American Poetics” to launch a discussion about poetic origin...

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