The Great zoo : : a Bilingual Edition

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Call Number: World-SPA 861.62-Gu
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Introduction : Nicolas Guillén, maker and breaker of forms -- Aviso = Notice -- El Caribe = The Caribbean -- Guitarra = Guitar -- Escarabajos = Beetles -- La pajarita de papel = The little paper bird -- La Osa Mayor = The Ursa Major -- El Aconcagua = The Aconcagua -- Los usureros = The moneylenders -- Los ríos = The rivers -- Señora = Lady -- Al publico : Avio-mamut = To the public : Air-mammoth -- La sed = The thirst -- El hambre = The hunger -- Institutriz = Headmistress -- Las nubes = The clouds -- Los vientos = The winds -- El tigre = The tiger -- Ciclón = Hurricane -- Ave-fénix = Phoenix -- Lynch = Lynch -- El cangrejo = The crab -- Gangster = Gangster -- KKK = KKK -- Las águilas = The eagles -- Monos = Monkeys -- Papaya = Papaya -- Luna = Moon -- Tenor = Tenor -- Policía = Police -- El chulo = The pimp -- Reloj = Clock -- Aviso : Gran Zoo de la Habana = Notice : Great Zoo of Havana -- Oradores = Orators -- El sueño = The dream -- Gorila = Gorilla -- Tonton Macoute = Tonton Macoute -- Bomba atomica = Atomic bomb -- La estrella polar -- The North Star -- Salida = The exit.
"Originally published in Spanish in 1967, The Great Zoo by the Afro-Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén (1902-1989) is a wry political project structured as though a fantastical bestiary of ideas and ideologies. Parodying the perceived authority and objectivity of zoological grammar, the poems present taxonomic-imagistic descriptions of caged entities in the voice of a dispassionate zoo tour guide explaining to the reader-as-visitor what appears inside each enclosure. These captive inhabitants include the Mississippi and Amazon Rivers as transmogrified snakes; a winged, singing guitar; clouds from around the world; a temperamental atomic bomb; blue-pelted police; and a bloodthirsty KKK. Newly translated by Aaron Coleman with a keen eye toward histories of colonial racialization, oppression, and exoticism, this bilingual edition of The Great Zoo establishes a creative mode in which the authority of language born of racial-colonial regimes in the so-called New World is critically, at times even comically, exposed and rewritten"-- Provided by publisher.
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