Poetry After the Invention of América: Don't Light the Flower - Hardcover
by A. Ajens
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Availability:In StockContributor:A. AjensSeries:Modern and Contemporary Poetry and PoeticsTheme:Chronological Period/Modern, Cultural Region/Latin America, Interdisciplinary Studies/Hispanic/Latino StudiesPublish date:10/26/2011Pages:178
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9780230115798ISBN-10:0230115799UPC:9780230115798Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Poetry, Modern, AmericanSize:8.30 x 5.70 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.341Product ID:SCF74YX3HE
This collection of essays traces the emergence of the Western poem from the standpoint of its collision with "American" otherness, particularly, the Latin American tradition. Unlike works extending Western conceptions of writing or searching for an alleged American ethnopoetics, this book approaches literature as a Western invention and, in turn, seeks out correspondences between traditions
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9780230115798ISBN-10:0230115799UPC:9780230115798Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Poetry, Modern, AmericanSize:8.30 x 5.70 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.341Product ID:SCF74YX3HE
ANDRÉS AJENS lives in Santiago, Chile. He completed his doctoral studies in Sociology under Alain Touraine at la École des Hautes Études in Paris, France. He is the author of numerous books, essays, and poems and he co-edits the journal Mar con Soroche (Santiago/La Paz), and is co-founder of Lenguandina (www.lenguandina.org) with Aymara translator and linguist Zacarías Alavi Mamani. MICHELLE GIL-MONTERO holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Iowa, USA. Her translations have appeared in Conjunctions, Circumference, Cipher, Jacket, Almost Island, and other journals, and in the forthcoming anthology 500 Years of Latin American Poetry published by Oxford University Press.
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
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2011 Edition
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