The Doubtful Strait / El Estrecho Dudoso Contributor(s): Cardenal, Ernesto (Author) |
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ISBN: 025320903X ISBN-13: 9780253209030 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $21.78 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 1995 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American |
Dewey: 861 |
LCCN: 94000633 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.75 lbs) 224 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: . . . 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. |