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A study of Tambores en la Noche, two volumes of verse by Jorge Artel, black poet of 20th-century Colombia. It analyzes his work within the context of Colombian history and culture, modern Spanish American literature, and the poet's own career.

Esta publicación es una invitación al lector colombiano, así como a todos los hispanoamericanos, a leer en las páginas de este libro la convivencia de nuestras lenguas hermanas en su mejor forma: el canto, la poesía. Al lector brasileño, le ofrece un panorama de la poesía escrita en Colombia, del siglo XIX al XXI, por poetas afrodescendientes, en la lengua de los autores y en traducción al portugués brasileño. Cabe recordar que, además del origen hispánico de sus lenguas oficiales, Colombia y Brasil comparten la condición de países con mayor población negra de América Latina.

In the life stories of holocaust survivors, biblical imagery can be invoked to explicate the unexplainable, to make real the unreal. This text examines the role of Genesis in the autobiographies of survivors, those who were the targets of genocidal attack. Three main concerns converge: the literary nature of Biblical allusion, the contextual history of the Holocaust, and Midrashic considerations that arise from biblical reference. After setting the groundwork of autobiographical theory, intertextuality, and the Midrashic tradition, the chapters examine references to Adam and Eve's expulsion from paradise, Noah's Ark, the Tower of Babel, the Akeda, Jacob's struggle with the angle, and Cain's murder of Abel. Of particular importance is the ways in which these allusions shed light both on the original text and on the act of genocide perpetrated by the Nazis.

A study of Tambores en la Noche, two volumes of verse by Jorge Artel, black poet of 20th-century Colombia. It analyzes his work within the context of Colombian history and culture, modern Spanish American literature, and the poet's own career.