Ernesto Cardenal

The Doubtful Strait / El Estrecho Dudoso

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Produktbeschreibung

" . . . very well translated . . . Cardenal merits praise for presenting, on such an ambitious scale, a passionate alternative history of the Spanish encounter with Central America." -Booklist "Combining hsitory with poetry, Cardenal exposes the violence, treachery, injustice, and exploitation that are so much a part of [Central America and Mexico's] past and present." -World Literature Today "Explore this dense, beautiful poem and you will be rewarded with riches that 'delight and hurt not'." -Nicaragua Update ". . . a remarkable text. . . . El estrecho dudoso is a masterful and compelling poetic account of early colonial Central America, and the translation is likewise masterful." -Colonial Latin American Historical Review In this book-length poem, Nicaraguan priest and revolutionary Ernesto Cardenal tells the story of the Spanish conquest of Central America from the "discovery" of the American continent to recent historical events. A remarkable achievement and an engrossing narrative, the poem is published here in both Spanish and English.

Produktdetails

• Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780253209030
• ISBN-10: 025320903X
• Artikelnr.: 37255972

Autorenporträt

Ernesto Cardenal was a Nicaraguan priest and an internationally acclaimed poet. For ten years he lived in the Solentiname islands in Lake Nicaragua, where he established a community of artists, writers, and peasants, which was later destroyed by the military. After the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship, Father Cardenal served as minister of culture in the Sandinista government. His many books include Abide in Love. He lived in Managua.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE ON PUNCTUATION
El estrecho dudoso
The Doubtful Strait
GLOSSARY