The Challenges of Writing About a Revolutionary Who Was Also a Poet: The Case of Roque Dalton (1935-1975) (Fall 2021) | Latin American Studies

The Challenges of Writing About a Revolutionary Who Was Also a Poet: The Case of Roque Dalton (1935-1975) (Fall 2021)

EVENT POSTPONED TO FALL 2021!

Join us ~~Friday, April 23, at 12 noon,~~ for a virtual lunch talk with CLAS colleague James Iffland, Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Boston University. Prof. Iffland will discuss “The Challenges of Writing About a Revolutionary Who Was Also a Poet: The Case of Roque Dalton (1935-1975).”

Professor Iffland is the author of Quevedo and the Grotesque (2 volumes, 1978 and 1982), Ensayos sobre la poesía revolucionaria de Centroamérica (1994), and De fiestas y aguafiestas: risa, locura e ideología en Cervantes y Avellaneda (1999). He is also editor of Francisco de Quevedo’s picaresque novel El buscón (1988) and Quevedo in Perspective: Eleven Essays for the Quadricentennial (1982), and co-editor of El “Quijote” desde América (2006).

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