Resisting Alienation

the long version

"As a rigorous critical introduction to Enrique Lihn's work, Resisting Alienation considers all major stages of Lihn's literary production, including poetry, prose, theater, short film, art spectacle or "happenings," and works which defy generic classification. It also engages the important body of research that has been published internationally on Lihn. A principal thesis of the book, that Lihn's work lends itself to a comparison with Theodor Adorno and other Western Marxist critical theorists, sheds significant light on Lihn's own understanding of the importance of art in the contemporary era and validates Marxist, as well as poststructuralist, postmodernist, and psychoanalytic readings, among others."--Jacket.