Gregory Dawes (born 1957) is a distinguished professor of Latin American Studies at North Carolina State University. He has written on

Latin American Latin Americans ( es, Latinoamericanos; pt, Latino-americanos; ) are the citizens of Latin American countries (or people with cultural, ancestral or national origins in Latin America). Latin American countries and their diasporas are multi-eth ...

studies and literary theory and is the editor of ''A Contracorriente'', an online academic journal dedicated to approaching social history and

Latin American literature Latin American literature consists of the oral and written literature of Latin America in several languages, particularly in Spanish, Portuguese, and the indigenous languages of the Americas. It rose to particular prominence globally during the ...

from a left-wing perspective, and managing editor of Editorial ''A Contracorriente,'' the Journal's publishing spin-off.

Personal information and education

Dawes received his B.A. and M.A. in Spanish from the

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. He received his Ph.D. in

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and Literature with a concentration in

Latin American Literature Latin American literature consists of the oral and written literature of Latin America in several languages, particularly in Spanish, Portuguese, and the indigenous languages of the Americas. It rose to particular prominence globally during the ...

from the

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Political beliefs

Dawes is a democratic socialist. His classes are on twentieth-century Latin American literature and culture and literary theory. He teaches courses on the culture of Chile during the Popular Unity government in Chile, the 60s in Latin America, the Latin American avant-garde, and on Latin American poetry. He has published articles and books on Latin American poetry, particularly on Pablo Neruda,

Octavio Paz Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican poet and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and ...

Vicente Huidobro Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández (; January 10, 1893 – January 2, 1948) was a Chilean poet born to an aristocratic family. He promoted the avant-garde literary movement in Chile and was the creator and greatest exponent of the literary m ...

César Vallejo César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza (March 16, 1892 – April 15, 1938) was a Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist. Although he published only two books of poetry during his lifetime, he is considered one of the great poetic innovators ...

Ernesto Cardenal Ernesto Cardenal Martínez (20 January 1925 – 1 March 2020) was a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, poet, and politician. He was a liberation theologian and the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived fo ...

Mario Benedetti Mario Orlando Hardy Hamlet Brenno Benedetti Farrugia (; 14 September 1920 – 17 May 2009), was an Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet and an integral member of the Generación del 45. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being publish ...

, among others.

Syllabi

Critical Approaches to Literature and Culture

Selected books

His publications include: *
Aesthetics and Revolution: Nicaraguan Poetry, 1979-1990
'. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. . *
Verses Against the Darkness: Pablo Neruda's Poetry and Politics
'. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2006. . *
Mario Benedetti, escritor uruguayo contemporáneo: estudios sobre su compromiso literario y político / Mario Benedetti, Contemporary Uruguayan Author: Studies on His Literary and Political Commitments
'. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008. . *
Poetas ante la modernidad: las ideas estéticas y políticas de Huidobro, Vallejo, Neruda y Paz
'. Madrid: Editorial Fundamentos, 2009. . *
Multiforme y comprometido. Neruda después de 1956
'. Santiago de Chile: RIL Editores, 2015. .

References

External links

Greg Dawes' academic homepage at NC State University

Homepage of ''A Contracorriente''

Homepage of Editorial ''A Contracorriente''

"En torno al Realismo y al Vanguardismo en las Residencias," conference presentation at Pablo Neruda Foundation, Santiago, Chile, October 2009
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