Key topics: Federico García Lorca, La casa de Bernarda Alba — tragic drama, patriarchy and female repression, the honor code, symbolic imagery (white/black, water, moon), Federico García Lorca, 'Prendimiento de Antoñito el Camborio en el camino de Sevilla' — Romancero gitano, duende, Gypsy identity, Andalusian cultural mythology, Osvaldo Dragún, El hombre que se convirtió en perro — Latin American absurdist/experimental theater, alienation, labor exploitation (added in most recent CED revision), Pablo Neruda, 'Walking around' — surrealist imagery, urban alienation, the speaker's existential revulsion in Residencia en la tierra, Nicolás Guillén, 'Balada de los dos abuelos' — Afro-Cuban Negrismo, the African and Spanish dual heritage, son rhythm and poetic form, Alfonsina Storni, 'Peso ancestral' — feminist lyric, critique of gendered emotional labor, the sonnet as ironic container, Nancy Morejón, 'Mujer negra' — Afro-Cuban identity, historical retelling of African diaspora and Cuban Revolution (added in most recent CED revision), Julia de Burgos, 'A Julia de Burgos' — Puerto Rican feminist lyric, the split self, social conformity vs. authentic identity, García Lorca's concept of duende: the dark, irrational creative force in Andalusian art, Vanguardismo and surrealism in Latin American poetry: Neruda's renovation of lyric imagery.
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