Cipango
Chilean poet Tomas Harris's Cipango, first published in 1992, employs the metaphor of a journey. The poems allude to the voyage of Columbus, who believed that he had reached the Far East, 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 contempor…
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Summary
Chilean poet Tomas Harris's Cipango, first published in 1992, employs the metaphor of a journey. The poems allude to the voyage of Columbus, who believed that he had reached the Far East, 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. --Bucknell University Press.
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- Publication Date:2009.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Bucknell University Press
- Place of Publication:Place of publication not identified
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2009.
Notes
Bilingual, Spanish/English.
The Physical Object
- Description:322 pages
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780838757345, 0838757340
- oclc:ocn779988944
- LC Classification:PQ8098.18.A68C5513 2010
- Dewey Decimal:861/.64
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