Ilan Stavans

The Wall (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Wall is a poetic explorationacross time, space, and language, real as well as metaphoricalof the U.S.-Mexican wall dividing the two civilizations, of similar walls (Jerusalem, China, Berlin, Warsaw, etc.) in history, and of the act of separating people by ideology, class, race, and other subterfuges. It is an indictment of hateful political rhetoric. In the spirit of Virgil's Aeneid and Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Master, it gives voice in symphonic fashion to an assortment of participants (immigrants, border patrol, soldiers, activists, presidents, people dead and alive) involved in the debate on walls. It brings in elements of literature and pop culture, fashion and cuisine. Poetry becomes a tool to explore raw human emotions in all its extremes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: LSU Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822983354
• Artikelnr.: 52535258

Autorenporträt

Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. He is the author and translator of numerous books, including The Seventh Heaven: Jewish Travels Through Latin America and The Wall.