Poetry After the Invention of América
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Poetry After the Invention of América

Don't Light the Flower

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Poetry After the Invention of América

Don't Light the Flower

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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

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Year
2011
ISBN
9780230370678

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Preface by Erín Moure and Forrest Gander
  7. Foreword by Alberto Moreiras
  8. 1 Indigenous Litter-ature
  9. 2 Drinking on the Pre- mises: The K’ulta “Poem”
  10. 3 Language, Poetry, Money
  11. 4 Crossbreed: Examining the Braid of Fiction
  12. 5 Aged War
  13. 6 Overborders
  14. 7 A Fatherless Poem?
  15. 8 Umiri—Misturaski
  16. 9 Flower of Extermination
  17. 10 And/or to Live to Tell It
  18. 11 Kissed Into: The Shared Today of Mapuche Letters
  19. 12 On Amerindian Language and (Contemporary) Poetry: Writingsouth
  20. 13 The Unheard- of in Poetry | Today
  21. 14 How Can We Fail to Respond?
  22. 15 Nobody in Chilean Poetry
  23. 16 Sticking Your Foot in It
  24. 17 Flat-Out: A Call for Pampa Poetry
  25. 18 The Occasionals
  26. Postface
  27. Notes
  28. Selected Bibliography
  29. Index