The City of Translation: Poetry and Ideology in Nineteenth-Century Colombia

by José María Rodríguez García

WINNER OF THE PROSE AWARD FOR LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, AND LINGUISTICS The two principal questions that The City of Translation sets out to answer are: how did poetry, philology, catechesis, and literary translation legitimate a coterie of right-wing literati's rise to power in Colombia? And how did these men proceed to dismantle a long-standing liberal-democratic state without derogating basic constitutional freedoms? To answer those questions, Jos...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230615333
• ISBN13: 9780230615335
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.3"