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The Epic of America - An Introduction to Rafael Landivar and the Rusticatio Mexicana (Paperback)
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The Epic of America - An Introduction to Rafael Landivar and the Rusticatio Mexicana (Paperback)
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A lively introduction to the rich and complex tradition of Latin
literature from colonial Spanish America, and to its best known
author, the poet Rafael Landivar. Rafael Landivar is the best known
of all the poets from the Americas to write in Latin. In the 15
books of his Rusticatio Mexicana (1782), he described - in vivid
epic verse - the lakes, volcanoes, and wildlife of Mexico and his
native Guatemala, as well as the livelihoods and recreations of the
people of the region. This panorama of nature, culture and
production in colonial New Spain took classical didactic poetry
into a new world of political conflict. But Landivar also writes
with a strongly personal voice: elegiac and pastoral modes convey
the pathos of displacement and the poet's overwhelming nostalgia
for his American homeland. Andrew Laird's introduction provides
information about Landivar's life and exile to Italy, explains his
diverse intellectual heritage, and collects his shorter works
(translated into English here for the first time). A 1948 text of
the Rusticatio Mexicana, with a translation by Graydon W. Regenos,
is included in this volume.
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