The Dinner at Gonfarone?s
Salomón de la Selva and His Pan-American Project in Nueva York, 1915-1919
Series: American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography; 7;
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Product details:
- Publisher Liverpool University Press
- Date of Publication 1 March 2022
- ISBN 9781802070040
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages416 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 617 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 33 Illustrations, black & white 283
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Short description:
The Dinner at Gonfarone?s covers five years in the life of the Nicaraguan poet, Salomón de la Selva, but it also offers a picture of Hispanic New York in the years around the First World War. De la Selva is the forerunner of Latino writers like Junot Díaz and Julia Álvarez.
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The Dinner at Gonfarone?s is organised as a partial biography, covering five years in the life of the young Nicaraguan poet, Salomón 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 Díaz and Julia Álvarez, writing the first book of poetry in English by an Hispanic author. In addition, through what he called his pan-American project, de la Selva brought together in New York writers from all over the American continent. He put the idea of trans-American literature into practice long before the concept was articulated.
De la Selva?s range of contacts was enormous, and this book has been made possible through discovery of caches of letters that he wrote to famous writers of the day, such as Edwin Markham and Amy Lowell, and especially Edna St Vincent Millay. Alongside de la Selva?s own poetry ? his book Tropical Town (1918) and a previously unknown 1916 manuscript collection ? The Dinner at Gonfarone?s highlights other Hispanic writing about New York in these years by poets such as Rubén Darío, José Santos Chocano, and Juan Ramón Jiménez, all of whom were part of de la Selva?s extensive network.
'Peter Hulme?s The Dinner at Gonfarone?s is a masterful, well-written literary history of the origins of modern literary pan-Americanism that offers the first in-depth biography in English of the early life and work of its seminal figure, Salomón de la Selva.'
Jonathan Cohen, author of A Pan-American Life: Selected Poetry and Prose of Muna Lee
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. Setting the Scene: New York in 1914
The Hispanic Presence
The Poetic Waters
Modernity and Modernism
2. American Geopolitics in the New Century (1898-1914)
The Famous States
Pan-Americanism
Roosevelt?s Vision
The Shakespearean Allegory
3. The Changing of the Poetic Guard (1915)
Growing up in New York!Rubén Darío in Hospital
Befriending Pedro, Loving Edna
The First Dinner
4. New York through Spanish Eyes (1916)
Courting Archer
The Recently Married Poet
Edwin Markham on Staten Island
Wilson?s Crime in Santo Domingo
A Tale from Faerieland
5. Goading the Bull Moose (1917)
Confronting Roosevelt
Mamita Schauffler
Chicago!Introducing Edna
6. The Pan-American Dream (1918)
Is America Honest?
Translating Poetry
Tropical Town
Falling in Love Again
Fighting for England
7. The Last Dinner (1919)
Nueva York!A Soldier Returns
The Dinner at Gonfarone?s
The Gulf of Misunderstanding
Nicaragua Has Me
Aftermath
Leaving New York
In Mexico
Later life
Taking account
Biographies
Acknowledgements
Select Bibliography
Index
