The Serpent and the Fire (eBook)

Poetries of the Americas from Origins to Present

Jerome Rothenberg (Herausgeber)

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2024
816 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-97275-9 (ISBN)

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Jerome Rothenberg’s final anthology—an experiment in omnipoetics with Javier Taboada—reaches into the deepest origins of the Americas, north and south, to redefine America and its poetries
 
The Serpent and the Fire breaks out of deeply entrenched models that limit “American” literature to work written in English within the present boundaries of the United States. Editors Jerome Rothenberg and Javier Taboada gather vital pieces from all parts of the Western Hemisphere and the breadth of European and Indigenous languages within: a unique range of cultures and languages going back several millennia, an experiment in what the editors call an American “omnipoetics.”
 
The Serpent and the Fire is divided into four chronological sections—from early pre-Columbian times to the immediately contemporary—and five thematic sections that move freely across languages and shifting geographical boundaries to underscore the complexities, conflicts, contradictions, and continuities of the poetry of the Americas. The book also boasts contextualizing commentaries to connect the poets and poems in dialogue across time and space.

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Contents

Pre-face 
Thanks & Acknowledgments

PRELUDIUM
America before America

(Patagonia, Argentina)
from Cueva de las Manos 

(Lower Pecos River, Texas)
from The White Shaman Mural: Narrative & Vision 

Emilio Adolfo Westphalen: from The Amber Goddess
Is Back 

(Epi-Olmec)
The Tuxtla Statuette 

(Adams, Ohio)
American Earthworks: The Great Serpent Mound 

(Inuit)
Inuksuk (Helper) 
(Mayan, Palenque, Mexico)
from Temple of the Tree of Yellow Corn 

(Quechua)
A Narrative Quipu 

(K’iche’ [Quiché] Mayan)
from Popol Vuh 
Jerome Rothenberg: An Academic Proposal

(Mbya-Guaraní)
from The Ayvu Rapyta: The Origins of Human Language 
Jorge Elías Adoum: “In the Beginning …” 


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Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.10.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: Anthologies • avant-garde works • Central • creation story • creoles • Decolonial Studies • decolonize the classics • Diversity • ethnopoetics • experimental forms • Folklore • French • Global • Hemispheric studies • Indigenous poetry • Literary History • Literary translation • Mapuche • Mayan • Mazatec • Mesoamerica • multilingual writing • Mythic Tales • Mythology • Nahuatl • Native American fiction • native writing • new anthology • oral narratives • Oral tradition • pidgins • Poetics • Portuguese • post colonial • Pre-Columbian texts • Quechua • Short Story • South America • Spanish • Translation • western canon • World literature
• ISBN-10: 0-520-97275-9 / 0520972759
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-97275-9 / 9780520972759