Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics (CLC Kreisel Lecture Series) - Softcover

Compton, Wayde

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1772127434 ISBN 13: 9781772127430

Verlag: University of Alberta Press, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics seeks to dislodge the often unspoken white universalism that underpins literary production and reception today. In this personal and thoughtful book, award-winning author Wayde Compton explores how we might collectively develop a poetic approach that makes space for diversity by doing away with universalism in both lyric and avant-garde verse. Poignant and contemporary examples reveal how white authors often forget that their whiteness is a racial position. In the propulsive push to experiment with form, they essentially fail to see themselves as “white artists.” Noting that he has never felt that his subjectivity was universal, Compton advocates for the importance of understanding your own history and positionality, and for letting go of the idea of a common aesthetic. Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics offers validation for poets of colour who do not work in dominant western forms, and is for all writers seeking to engage in anti-racist work.

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Wayde Compton has written five books and edited two literary anthologies. His collection of short stories, The Outer Harbour, won the City of Vancouver Book Award in 2015 and he won a National Magazine Award for Fiction in 2011. His work has been a finalist for two other City of Vancouver Book Awards as well as the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Compton has been writer-in-residence at Simon Fraser University, Green College at the University of British Columbia, and the Vancouver Public Library. Compton teaches in the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Alberta Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1772127434
• ISBN 13: 9781772127430
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 72
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