Title Poetry after the invention of América : don't light the flower / Andrés Ajéns ; translated by Michelle Gil-Montero ; introduction by Erin Moure and Forrest Gander

Edition First edition Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 178 pages) Series Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics. Contents Preface / by Erin Moure and Forrest Gander -- Foreword / by Alberto Moreiras -- Indigenous Litter-ature -- Drinking on the Pre-mises: The K'ulta 'Poem' -- Language, Poetry, Money -- Crossbreed: Examining the Braid of Fiction -- Aged War -- Overborders -- A Fatherless Poem? -- Umiri-Misturaski -- Flower of Extermination -- And/or to Live to Tell It -- Kissed-Into the Shared Today of Mapuche Letters -- On Amerindian Language and (Contemporary) Poetry -- The Unheard-of in Poetry Today -- How Can We Fail to Respond? -- Nobody in Chilean Poetry -- Sticking Your Foot in It -- Flat-Out: A Call for Pampa Poetry -- The Occasionals Summary "These essays trace the Western poem as it confronts indigenous alterity in Latin America. Rather than extend Western conceptions of writing in search of an alleged Amerindian ethno-literature, Ajens approaches literature as a Western invention. This book discusses a wide range of indigenous American, Hispanic, and European texts, with a focus on language, authorship, genre, and translation"--Provided by publisher Notes Translation of: Flor del extérmino Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Latin American poetry -- History and criticism Indian poetry -- History and criticism Other (Philosophy) in literature. Poetry Literature -- Philosophy. Translating and interpreting. Other minds (Theory of knowledge) in literature. Poetry as Topic poetry. Literary studies: from c 1900 -- The Americas. Literary studies: poetry & poets -- The Americas. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. POETRY -- Continental European. Literature. Other minds (Theory of knowledge) in literature Indian poetry Latin American poetry Literature -- Philosophy Other (Philosophy) in literature Poetry Translating and interpreting Latinamerikansk poesi -- historia. Indiansk poesi -- historia. Den andre (filosofi) i litteraturen. Poesi. Översättning. Genre/Form poetry. Poetry Criticism, interpretation, etc. Poetry. Poésie. Form Electronic book Author Gil-Montero, Michelle, translator Moure, Erín, 1955- writer of preface. Gander, Forrest, 1956- writer of preface. Moreiras, Alberto, writer of foreword ISBN 9780230370678 0230370675

Other Titles Flor del extérmino. English

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