Upper Volta / Yanko González ; translated by Stephen Rosenshein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

González Cangas, Yanko, 1971- author.

Contributor:

Rosenshein, Stephen, translator.

Standardized Title:

Alto Volta. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021.

Language Note:

Parallel Spanish and English texts translated from the Spanish.

Summary:

"Like an anthropologist doing fieldwork, in Upper Volta Yanko González collects language from street corners, grocery store aisles, cocktail hours, and historical sources, laying data bare with a poet's meticulous hand. In his findings, González gives voice to the voiceless, and exposes the underbelly of our own biases--the ways in which they manifest in everyday language and collective consciousness. Like a mirror, it forces us to look head-on at the language of globalization and ethnocentrism and the changing tide of thought and culture within our own society."--Back cover.

Notes:

"Originally published in Spanish as Alto Volta (Valdivia : Ediciones El Kultrún, 2007)"--Page facing title page.

Statement of responsibility from cover.

ISBN:

1946433713

9781946433718

OCLC:

1247840014

Publisher Number:

99988845667