The dinner at Gonfarone's : Salomón de la Selva and his Pan-American Project in Nueva York, 1915-1919 / Peter Hulme.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hulme, Peter, author.

Series:

American tropics.

American tropics : towards a literary geography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Spanish American literature.

American literature--Hispanic American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (N.Y.)--In literature.

Selva, Salomón de la, 1893-1959.

Selva, Salomón de la.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 397 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2019.

Summary:

<i>The Dinner at Gonfarone's</i> 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Oct 2022).

ISBN:

1-78962-360-X

1-78694-322-0