Fanon City Meu
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Political poetry takes on a new definition in Jaime Huenún’s Fanon City Meu, where the voices of the colonized and their colonizers form a dissonant choir bearing testimony to the centuries of violence that have shaped Latin America. Inspired by Martinican intellectual Frantz Fanon, the book examines issues of race, colonialism, and revolution through a poetic discourse that only seems to find solace in irony. In this volume, Huenún, a renowned Chilean-Mapuche poet, draws parallels between the alienation of South American indigenous peoples and the experiences Fanon documented in the Caribbean and Algeria, breaching national and linguistic barriers that often work to isolate the “wretched of the earth.” Fanon City Meu is Huenún’s second full-length collection of poetry to be translated into English, following Port Trakl in 2008. Both books form part of an ongoing project to engage with the work of prominent international poets and intellectuals, such as George Trakl and Osip Mandelstam. Huenún questions the limits of so-called indigenous literature without abandoning issues relevant to the Mapuche struggle for self-determination, urging readers to reflect on the inseparable bond between language and politics.
Fanon City is Peru, it’s Brazil, it’s Bolivia, it’s Ecuador, it’s Alabama, it’s Cuba, it’s Mexico, it’s Aruba or Curççao. It’s where Cesar Vallejo is in jail; it’s the home of Che Guevara’s disembodied hands. It is, perhaps, the whole of the Americas, united by a shared infection, a shared violence, a shared history of colonial murder. Jaime Luis Huenún, a Mapuche poet from southern Chile and author of Port Trakl, here extends his canon of literary cities built in homage to writers and the wars that form them. And Fanon City Meu, translated powerfully by Thomas Rothe, makes a hemispheric argument by creating a poem from the continuum of violence that begins with the European slaughter of the Americas and extends into the neoliberalist slaughter of Chile and the cultural and environmental degradation it has wrought. Fanon City Meu is “a poem of rats,” a poem where the entwined disaster of genocide and capitalism must be acknowledged, analyzed and resisted. “Beware of national anthems,” writes Huenún, as we move through the border checkpoints of nations that break their own people. Fanon City Meu, then, is a poetics of protest against those who have been deluded by centuries of colonial madness, and for those who survive and fight. —Daniel Borzutzky, author of The Performance of Becoming Human (National Book Award, 2016). In some quarters, the term “globalization” may yet have beneficent connotations. But in this remarkably powerful and prophetic collection of poetry by award-winning Chilean poet Jaime Luis Huenún (b. 1967), global means the planetary dissemination of inequality and rage accumulated over the centuries and deposited in a single society of new masters and slaves, who speak a mixture of languages on the honed blade of these poems that cut like a machete. Make no mistake. Huenún is not a poet who minces his words in Fanon City Meu. With a certain resignation capable of assimilating prior defeats and not exempt from bitterness, he presents his denunciation of these conditions from within an historical past that is simultaneously a message and an exhortation from the future. —Steven F. White, editor of El consumo de lo que somos: muestra de poesía ecológica hispánica contemporánea.
About the Author
Jaime Luis Huenún was born in 1967 in Valdivia, southern Chile. He is an award-winning Mapuche-Huilliche poet writing in Spanish. His books include Ceremonias (1999), Puerto Trakl (2001), Reducciones (2012), FANON CITY MEU (2014), and La calle Maldestam y otros territorios apócrifos (2016). He has received numerous awards, including the Pablo Neruda Prize (2003), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2005), and the Chilean National Council on Arts and Culture's Best Work of Literature 2013 for Redu
Okładka: Paperback
Liczba stron:102
Autor:Huenún, Jaime Luis
Język: English: Published; English: Original Language; English
Data wydania: 2017-11-08
Waga: 0.278 gram
Wysokość: 0.5 cm
Szerokość: 5 cm
Długość: 8 cm
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