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On This Modern Highway, Lost in the Jungle : Tropics, Travel, and Colonialism in Czech Poetry.

Postcolonial reflections on Indonesia's influence upon the avant-garde poetry of a non-colonial European. In 1926, the Communist avant-garde poet Konstantin Biebl (1898-1951) traveled from Czechoslovakia to the Dutch East Indies. In the writings from his journal--texts simultaneously poetic and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Azek, Jan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Prague : Karolinum Press, 2022.
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505 0 |a Cover -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Preamble -- Part One | The mirror of time -- Parrots and monkeys -- The first palm -- Where grenades fall, there green palms grow -- First Excursion | Parrots on motorcycles: exoticisms of the Czech avant-garde in the 1920s -- Metaphors, dreams, travel -- Workers ... Indians! -- Through the train window-Don't worry, I am not going to Paris -- Second Excursion | His head that watches us over the century's edge: poetic travels in the nineteenth century -- The notebook that he lost somewhere on the ship 
505 8 |a With the ship that carries tea and coffee -- Half-black, you understand? Here you have to be careful! -- New Icarus and the mestiza My Beautiful Arsiti -- Again some Malay landscape -- The jungle around us -- Sailors of all seas unite! -- Your longest and most adventurous journey -- Again and again man is proving that he has no wings -- Part Two | A hundred rose petals, on them no words -- Silences -- Sounds, smells, tastes -- Typography-optic configurations -- Photographs, cinema, and the magazine Home and the World -- Picture postcards 
505 8 |a Snapshots and reflections: poetry | travel | photography | death -- Author's note on translations and sources -- Bibliography -- Index 
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