The Song of Disappearance: Memory, History, and Testimony in the Poetry of Antonio Gamoneda
This essay explores Antonio Gamoneda’s poetry as an Adornian form of testimony. With its enigmatic foregrounding of lies, the book-length poem Descripción de la mentira ‘Description of the Lie’ can be read as a “contradictory testimony” in which the act and memory of witnessing go, as it were, und...
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| Language: | English |
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New Prairie Press
2012-06-01
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| Series: | Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature |
| Online Access: | http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol36/iss2/13 |