The Double Strand: Five Contemporary Mexican Poets

Two strands, one indigenous, the other imposed, pro-duce the poetic and cultural tensions that give form to the work of five contemporary Mexican poets-All Chumacero, Efrain Huerta, Jaime Sabines, Ruben Bonifaz Nuno, and Rosario Castellanos. Although all five are significant figures, only Castellanos has yet been widely studied in the United States, primarily for her novels and her relations with the feminist movement. In spite of a number of rather basic differences in their work, these poets

• | Author: Frank Dauster
• | Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• | Publication Date: Jul 15, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 208 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0813152186
• | ISBN-13: 9780813152189