Poetry and politics in news-sheets and pamphlets from Antonio Vanegas Arroyo’s printing house
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News-sheets, Lyric, Politic, Printing Press, Antonio Vanegas ArroyoAbstract
Within popular literature, poetry has fulfilled —among many others— the function of communicating news and assessments of the actions of rulers or the powers-that-be. This tradition, which stems from the middle Ages, was fully developed through the verse compositions disseminated by the broadsheet printed by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo in the Mexican early 20th century. These texts address a diversity of topics and fulfill various different functions within what we may call the ‘poetics of news-sheets’. In this paper I shall examine the short poetic texts in some broadsheet appearing right after the armed uprising which led to the Revolution. Through their study, I shall approach the topics and poetic forms employed to deal with events and political personalities in a revolutionary context. Also, I shall analyze how this conformed the Mexican popular political mindset.
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