Bøker av David Treece

A study of one of the important intellectual and artistic movements in Brazilian cultural history: the Indianist movement. Tracing the history of official indigenist policy and Indianist writing, it reveals the role of the Indian in constructing the self-image of state and society under Empire.

A guide to the history of poetic debate and practice in 20th-century Latin America. The book argues that the possibility of universal emancipation is evoked in the transformation of language. Each chapter focuses on key texts by poets such as Cardenal, Neruda, Vallejo and the Andrades.