| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 397 pages) : illustrations |
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American tropics : towards a literary geography
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American tropics.
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| Summary |
The Dinner at Gonfarone's is organised as a partial biography, covering five years in the life of the young Nicaraguan poet, Salomón de la Selva, but it also offers a literary geography of Hispanic New York (Nueva York) in the turbulent years around the First World War. De la Selva is of interest because he stands as the largely unacknowledged precursor of Latino writers like Junot Díaz and Julia Álvarez, writing the first book of poetry in English by an Hispanic author. In addition, through what he called his pan-American project, de la Selva brought together in New York writers from all over the American continent. He put the idea of trans-American literature into practice long before the concept was articulated. De la Selva's range of contacts was enormous, and this book has been made possible through discovery of caches of letters that he wrote to famous writers of the day, such as Edwin Markham and Amy Lowell, and especially Edna St Vincent Millay. Alongside de la Selva's own poetry - his book Tropical Town (1918) and a previously unknown 1916 manuscript collection - The Dinner at Gonfarone's highlights other Hispanic writing about New York in these years by poets such as Rubén Darío, José Santos Chocano, and Juan Ramón Jiménez, all of whom were part of de la Selva's extensive network |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Contents |
Setting the scene: New York in 1914 -- American geopolitics in the new century (1898-1914) -- The changing of the poetic guard (1915) -- New York through Spanish eyes (1916) -- Goading the Bull Moose (1917) -- The Pan-American dream (1918) -- The last dinner (1919) |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Selva, Salomón de la, 1893-1959.
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Selva, Salomón de la, 1893-1959 |
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Spanish American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Hispanic American authors -- History and criticism.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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New York (N.Y.) -- In literature.
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POETRY -- Continental European. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- Hispanic American. |
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American literature -- Hispanic American authors |
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Intellectual life |
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Literature |
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Spanish American literature |
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New York (State) -- New York |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Literary criticism
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hulme, Peter. Dinner at Gonfarone's. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2019 1786942003 (DLC) 2019286288 (OCoLC)1055463070 |
| ISBN |
9781786943224 (electronic bk.) |
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1786943220 (electronic bk.) |
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9781786942005 (cased) |
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1786942003 (cased) |
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