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Literary Amazonia
Nicomedes . Ed(S): Suarez-Arauz
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Description for Literary Amazonia
Paperback. Presents a selection of 20th-century Amazonian literature. This book contains writing from the indigenous and mestizo people of the Amazon basin, which aims to recover their forgotten voices for the Latin American literary canon. It includes poems, stories, and passages from novels that include traditional themes of the indigenous groups. Editor(s): Suarez-Arauz, Nicomedes. Num Pages: 216 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 272.
This remarkable selection of 20th-century Amazonian literature presents writing from the indigenous and mestizo people of the Amazon basin, recovering their forgotten voices for the Latin American literary canon. Most of these pieces - from 24 representative poets and 12 prose writers - are collected and translated into English here for the first time. Reflecting the editor's Pan-Amazonian vision, the book's organizational principle embraces the entire 7 million square kilometers of the Amazon basin as one imaginary space linked by myth, history, geography, and economy - not divided into arbitrary political regions. Most inhabitants live along the banks of the ... Read more
This remarkable selection of 20th-century Amazonian literature presents writing from the indigenous and mestizo people of the Amazon basin, recovering their forgotten voices for the Latin American literary canon. Most of these pieces - from 24 representative poets and 12 prose writers - are collected and translated into English here for the first time. Reflecting the editor's Pan-Amazonian vision, the book's organizational principle embraces the entire 7 million square kilometers of the Amazon basin as one imaginary space linked by myth, history, geography, and economy - not divided into arbitrary political regions. Most inhabitants live along the banks of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Florida, United States
ISBN
9780813030807
SKU
V9780813030807
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About Nicomedes . Ed(S): Suarez-Arauz
Nicomedes Suarez-Arauz is director of the Center for Amazonian Literature and Culture at Smith College.
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