Poetic Investigations: Singing the Holes in History (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies) - Hardcover

Naylor, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810116677 ISBN 13: 9780810116672

Verlag: Northwestern University Press, 1999

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Book by Naylor Paul

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Reseña del editor:

This text studies five contemporary writers whose radical engagements with poetic form and political content shed new light on issues of race, class and gender. In a detailed reading of three American poets - Susan Howe, Nathaniel Mackey and Lyn Hejinian, and two Caribbean poets, Kamau Brathwaite and M. Nourbese Philip, the book argues that these writers have produced new forms of poetry that address the ""holes"" in history that more traditional forms of poetry neglect. By refusing to limit their work to lyrical expressions of personal experience, it maintains that these writers produce poetry that explores the linguistic, historical and political conditions of contemporary culture, advancing a formally and thematically challenging critique of the ways in which women and people of colour are represented. Far from constituting a unified ""school"" of poetry, however the book argues that these five writers represent different facets of the various kinds of poetic practice taking place on the margins of contemporary culture.

Biografía del autor:

Paul Naylor is an associate professor of English at the University of Memphis.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0810116677
• ISBN 13: 9780810116672
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 203