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Purifications or the Sign of Retaliation

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These are dense, florid, strange, and beautiful poems that rewrite the Greek pantheon into a feminist Brazilian landscape.


About the author

Myriam Fraga: Myriam Fraga (1937-2016) was a contemporary Brazilian poet from Salvador da Bahia. She is also executive director of the Fundação Casa de Jorge Amado and a member of the Bahian Academy of Letters. Her published work includes ten volumes of poetry, as well as biographies and children's literature.

Chloe Hill: Chloe Hill is a PhD student in the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University. In 2014, with the support of a Fulbright fellowship, she traveled to Brazil to work alongside Myriam Fraga translating a selection of poems.

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These are dense, florid, strange, and beautiful poems that rewrite the Greek pantheon into a feminist Brazilian landscape.

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Product details

Authors Myriam Fraga
Assisted by Chloe Hill (Translation)
Publisher Ingram Publishers Services
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.09.2017
 
EAN 9781945680076
ISBN 978-1-945680-07-6
No. of pages 120
Series Cliff Becker Book Prize in Tra
The Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation
The Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation
Cliff Becker Book Prize in Tra
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies

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