Poetry. Latinx Studies. Introduction by Francisco Aragón and Ana Patricia Rodríguez. This bilingual Salvadoran poetry anthology seeks to challenge the traditional concept of nationality and explore the diverse identities that coexist in the world of Salvadoran poetry. Considering the blurring of identities and the elasticity of national borders, Kalina not only introduces the work of poets that reside in El Salvador and write in Spanish; it is also an exposition of the work of poets that have emigrated and write in the language of their adopted country. The poems offer both Spanish-speaking and English-speaking readers an array of linguistic, thematic and aesthetic contrasts and likenesses. The first of its kind, this anthology will provide an opportunity for Salvadoran poets and Salvadoran-American poets to establish a poetic dialogue amongst themselves and with the poetic community at large. "This anthology rocks and hums with the music of El Salvador's current poetic voices, the children of Salarrué and Roque Dalton. I'm drawn to their meditations on identity, to their streets and their foliage, their images and themes: love food, landscape, home--and the darker ones: hunger, loss, death, war. From cover to cover these poems come at you, vivid and various and genuine."--Joseph Millar "The editors at Kalina have produced an anthology beyond anthologies. THEATRE UNDER MY SKIN collects the writing of three generations of Salvadoran poets affected by war and emigration. The essays will instruct you, and the poetry will confirm in you that true poetry transcends national boundaries and aesthetics. Because of the waves of emigration, Salvadoran writing is now worldwide. THEATRE UNDER MY SKIN is an enormous achievement and a considerable contribution to World Poetry."--Marvin Bell Contributors: René Rodas, Otoniel Guevara, Susana Reyes, Jorge Galán, Roxana Méndez, Krisma Mancía, Elena Salamanca, Vladimir Amaya, Miroslava Rosales, Quique Áviles, José B. González, William Archila, Gabriela Poma Traynor, Leticia Hernández Linares, Lorena Duarte, Mario Escobar, Elsie Rivas Gómez, Javier Zamora

Theatre Under My Skin: Contemporary Salvadoran Poetry

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Kalina

Poetry. Fiction. Hybrid Genre. Translated by Alexandra Lytton Regalado. A "delicate tracery" weaving between poems and short stories, the sixteen pieces that compose FAMILY OR OBLIVION are what Elena Salamanca defines as "filigrees." This "polished and piercing" collection holds multitudes of women: girls, mothers, aunts, grandmothers, saints, brides, and widows--women who starve themselves, who gorge themselves, women who bury or are buried, who cage birds and are the birds themselves, women who are full of forgetfulness, women who are so empty they levitate. These women thread needles, they unravel knots, they knit and embroider these filigrees that speak to us about life in this unnamed city, about memory and oblivion, about the longing and emptiness that hems these characters in. Though Salamanca prefers to leave the threads of her storylines untied, these filigrees, as she explains, "can be read between the lines" and like Teresa, who "continued to float until she reached the ceiling. With no possibility of descending" readers of this book will find that Salamanca's images will also linger in their imaginations for days on end.

Family or Oblivion / La familia o el olvido

Salamanca, Elena

United States

Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Latinx Studies. Edited by Tania Pleitez Vela, Alexandra Lytton Regalado, Lucía de Sola. What do we mean when we refer to contemporary Salvadoran literature? As a response to this question the coordinating editors of this anthology present a selection of texts written in the 2000's by Salvadorans of different generations. Written in Spanish and translated into English (and, in some cases, vice versa), these prose pieces are true vanishing points; each one follows a unique trajectory. Although some authors revisit the effects of the country's civil war in the 80's, they do so from an angle that breaks from traditional testimonial literature; other authors depict the country's current situation. In this collection, the characters roam the mountains of wartime El Salvador, they transit gang-infested neighborhoods, they ride the rails atop The Beast that takes them to the United States; in El Salvador they hide their books as violence encroaches, they beg for coins on the streets of a small town, they are locked up in a military school, they float to the ceiling in a barren house. In other stories set in the era of globalization, characters navigate European or North American cities and places of dream-like wonder or of nightmares; the authors addresses universal subjects: egotism, violence against women, desire, and abandonment. This collection is an essential guide to the exploration of new trajectories in Salvadoran prose. Contributors: Ignacio Sarmiento Pérez (prologue), Miguel Huezo Mixco, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Carmen González Huguet, Rafael Menjívar Ochoa, Jacinta Escudos, Oscar García, Claudia Castro Luna, Harrison López, Nancy Gutiérrez, Elena Salamanca, Oscar Martínez, Ana Escoto, Olivia Olivia, Alejandro Córdova, Andreas Portillo. Translators: Lawrence Schimel, Dave Foxall, Marianne Choquet, Yesenia Santibañez, Harrison López, Jessica Rainey, Alexandra Lytton Regalado, Emilie Delcourt, Daniela Maria Ugaz, John Washington, Lucía de Sola.

Vanishing Points / Puntos de fuga : Contemporary Salvadoran Prose

Short Stories & Anthologies

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Theatre Under My Skin: Contemporary Salvadoran Poetry

Family or Oblivion / La familia o el olvido

Vanishing Points / Puntos de fuga : Contemporary Salvadoran Prose

Family or Oblivion / La familia o el olvido