The Dinner at Gonfarone's: Salomón de la Selva and His Pan-American Project in Nueva York, 1915-1919

by Peter Hulme

Book Overview

The Dinner at Gonfarone's is organised as a partial biography, covering five years in the life of the young Nicaraguan poet, Salom n de la Selva, but it also offers a literary geography of Hispanic New York (Nueva York) in the turbulent years around the First World War. De la Selva is of interest because he stands as the largely unacknowledged precursor of Latino writers like Junot D az and Julia lvarez, writing the first book of poetry...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1802070044
• ISBN13: 9781802070040
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 416 Pages