Gathering of Voices The 20th Century Poetry of Latin America

Name: Gathering of Voices The 20th Century Poetry of Latin America
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ISBN: 9780860915812

ISBN-10: 0860915816

ISBN-13: 9780860915812

Edition: 1992

Authors: Mike Gonzalez, David Treece

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During the last hundred years, the private and public voices of Latin American poetry have offered a wealth of imaginative responses to the region‘s social and political experiences. In the face of capitalist modernization, dictatorship and imperialist domination, poets have fought back. The Gathering of Voices argues that the best of Latin American poetry has set out to rediscover its roots in local experience and to enter a dialogue with the “ordinary” discourses of popular culture and tradition. The implication is that an alternative response to oppression is possible, one inspired by the shared global expeiences of alienation, exclusion and exploitation. The possibility of a universal…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 12/17/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Mike Gonzalez is Emeritus Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Glasgow. He is the co-editor of Arms and the People (Pluto, 2012) and author of A Rebel's Guide to Marx (2006) and Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution (2004).