Poetry After the Invention of América

Download or read book Poetry After the Invention of América written by A. Ajens and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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