Cipango
Chilean poet Tomás Harris's Cipango--written in the 1980s, first published in 1992, and considered by many to be the author's best work to date--employs the metaphor of a journey. The poems collectively allude to the voyage of Columbus, who believed that he'd reached the Far East ('Cipango, ' or Japan), not the Americas. Building on that mistaken historical premise, Cipango comments on the oppressive legacy of colonialism in Latin America--manifested in twentieth-century Chile through the 1973 military coup by Augusto Pinochet and the brutal dictatorship there--and on the violence and degradation of contemporary urban society. The author's vi…
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Weitere Autoren: Shapiro, Daniel L. (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-61148-329-1
- EAN: 9781611483291
- Produktnummer: 20019759
- Verlag: Bucknell Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 321 S.
- Masse: H24.7 cm x B16.5 cm x D2.2 cm 608 g
- Gewicht: 608
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