On This Modern Highway, Lost in the Jungle: Tropics, Travel, and Colonialism in Czech Poetry

by Jan Mrazek

Postcolonial reflections on Indonesia's influence upon the avant-garde poetry of a non-colonial European.

In 1926, the Communist avant-garde poet Konstantin Biebl (1898-1951) traveled from Czechoslovakia to the Dutch East Indies. In the writings from his journal-texts simultaneously poetic and comic-both landlocked Bohemia and the colonized tropical islands are seen in disorienting new perspectives, like "mirrors looking at themselves...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8024651122
• ISBN13: 9788024651125
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Karolinum Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.2"