Empire of Dreams (Hardcover)

The work deals with issues of performance, gender ambiguity, and marginality. It is concerned with the boundaries of language and the possibilities of cross-dressing poetry as commercials, diary, tabloids, gossip, confessions, videos, autobiography, musicals, and manifesto. Characters turn into other characters. Clowns, buffoons, shepherds, lead soldiers, magicians, madmen, witches, fortune-tellers, and artists perform their fantasies in the city streets. An antinovel within the book satirizes the writer's role in the modern age and calls for a revolution of poetry. New York City becomes the site of liberation for its marginal citizens, as the narrator is led through a seeming phantasmagoria of internal and external trials in order to experience the center - of political power, of meaning, of feeling, and of personal identity.

General

Imprint:	Yale University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 1994
First published:	August 1994
Authors:	Giannina Braschi
Translators:	Tess O'Dwyer
Dimensions:	210 x 140 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	244
ISBN-13:	978-0-300-05795-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > From 1900 > General Promotions
LSN:	0-300-05795-4
Barcode:	9780300057959

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