History in the poetry of Prospero Saiz: a reading of "document".

From: MELUS | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: Deppman, Jed | Copyright information

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History, Poetry, and prospero saiz

It may generally be true that as poets become concerned with ethnicity, they also grow frustrated with historiography. Certainly their resistance to the way history is produced and circulated is visible in the competing accounts one finds in their writings, an authoritative but false one often sitting side by side with a corrective. "Equality," writes Alurista in his famous Floricanto en Aztlan, "is a meaningless concept,...

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