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The Great Zoo: A Bilingual Edition
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(Buch) |
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Lieferstatus: |
Vorankündigung |
Veröffentlichung: |
ANGEKÜNDIGT (Oktober 2024)
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Genre: |
Romane, Erzählungen, Gedichte |
ISBN: |
9780226834795 |
EAN-Code:
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9780226834795 |
Verlag: |
Cambridge University Press |
Einband: |
Kartoniert |
Sprache: |
English Espanol
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Dimensionen: |
H / B / D |
Gewicht: |
454 gr |
Seiten: |
96 |
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Inhalt: |
"Originally published in Spanish in 1967, The Great Zoo by the Afro-Cuban poet NicolaáI p1 ss GuilleáI p1 sn (1902-1989) is a wry political project structured as though a fantastical bestiary of ideas and ideologies. Parodying the perceived authority and objectivity of zoological grammar, the poems present taxonomic-imagistic descriptions of caged entities in the voice of a dispassionate zoo tour guide explaining to the reader-as-visitor what appears inside each enclosure. These captive inhabitants include the Mississippi and Amazon Rivers as transmogrified snakes; a winged, singing guitar; clouds from around the world; a temperamental atomic bomb; blue-pelted police; and a bloodthirsty KKK. Newly translated by Aaron Coleman with a keen eye toward histories of colonial racialization, oppression, and exoticism, this bilingual edition of The Great Zoo establishes a creative mode in which the authority of language born of racial-colonial regimes in the so-called New World is critically, at times even comically, exposed and rewritten"-- |
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