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Poetry After the Invention of América

Don’t Light the Flower
By:A. Ajens
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230115798
eText ISBN:9780230370678
Edition:0
Copyright:2011
Format:Page Fidelity

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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