Poetry After the Invention of América [electronic resource] : Don’t Light the Flower /
Ajens, A.author.
Gil-Montero, Michelle.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface by Erín Moure and Forrest Gander; Foreword by Alberto Moreiras; 1 Indigenous Litter- ature; 2 Drinking on the Pre- mises: The K'ulta "Poem"; 3 Language, Poetry, Money; 4 Crossbreed: Examining the Braid of Fiction; 5 Aged War; 6 Overborders; 7 A Fatherless Poem?; 8 Umiri-Misturaski; 9 Flower of Extermination; 10 And/or to Live to Tell It; 11 Kissed Into: The Shared Today of Mapuche Letters; 12 On Amerindian Language and (Contemporary) Poetry: Writingsouth; 13 The Unheard- of in Poetry | Today
14 How Can We Fail to Respond?15 Nobody in Chilean Poetry; 16 Sticking Your Foot in It; 17 Flat- Out: A Call for Pampa Poetry; 18 The Occasionals; Postface; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Literature   .
Poetry.
America—Literatures.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
North American Literature.