Poetry After the Invention of América: Don't Light the Flower by Ajens, A.

Poetry After the Invention of América: Don't Light the Flower (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230115798)

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Poetry After the Invention of América: Don't Light the Flower by Ajens, A.

Poetry After the Invention of América: Don't Light the Flower

$54.99
Poetry After the Invention of América: Don't Light the Flower by Ajens, A.

Poetry After the Invention of América: Don't Light the Flower

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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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

Author: A. Ajens
ISBN-10: 0230115799
ISBN-13: 9780230115798
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 10/26/2011
Pages: 178
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.60d

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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.

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