Modern Argentine Poetry - Exile, Displacement, Migration

Klappentext Poetry is often perceived as the least directly political of genres! yet political and other forms of exile have impinged on the lives of poets as much as on any other group! especially in Argentina. Throughout Argentina's history! authors and important political figures have been forced to live and write in exile! making exile is both a vital theme and a practical condition for Argentine letters. This study is the first to focus on the link between exile and poetry in Argentina since the 1950s and covers such poets as Alejandra Pizarnik! Juan Gelman! Osvaldo Lamborghini! and Nestor Perlongher. Zusammenfassung This book is the first to focus on the exile-poetry link in the case of Argentina since the 1950s. Throughout Argentina's history! authors and important political figures have lived and written in exile yet! conversely! contemporary Argentina is a nation of immigrants from Europe and the rest of Latin America.

Product details

• Authors: Ben Bollig, Bollig Ben
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2011
• EAN: 9780708323557
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2355-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Iberian and Latin American Studies; Iberian and Latin American Stu; Iberian and Latin American Studies
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry