Multicultural Poetics
Re-visioning the American Canon
1st Edition
Published on 21. December 2017
292 pages
978-1-4384-6846-4 (ISBN)
Description
Argues that multiculturalism and hybridity are key components of the nation's poetry and its culture.
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English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
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Reflowable
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Total Illustrations: 2
Total Illustrations: 2
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978-1-4384-6846-4 (9781438468464)
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Nissa Parmar is Lecturer in Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota and teaches at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She is the coeditor (with Anna Hewitt and Alex Goody) of Mapping the Self: Place, Identity, Nationality.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright and Permissions
- Introduction In "the American Strain"
- Hybridity
- American Culture: a History of "Two" "Strains"
- "A Nation of Nations"?
- "Nothing is Beyond Poetry"
- "The Social Function of Poetry"
- Chapter One: Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman The "Beginners"
- The Hybrid Revolution
- "Their Presidents Shall Not Be Their Common Referee so Much as Their Poets Shall."
- "A Revolution in Form and in the Traditional Conceptions of Literature Itself"
- "I See-New Englandly"
- Poetry and "Possibility"
- "Strange and 'Dreadful' to Their Place and Time"
- Poetic Identity
- "The Friendly Flowing Savage"
- "My Business Is Circumference"
- "Poets to Come"
- Chapter Two: William Carlos Williams "A Sort of Song"
- "Saxifrage is My Flower"
- "Are you for American Poetry or for Poetry?"
- Hybridity
- Fellow Revolutionaries
- A Hybrid Structure to House the American Language
- "We Cannot go to the Country"
- Pastorals and Paterson
- Chapter Three: Adrienne Rich "A Whole New Poetry Beginning Here"
- A Re-Visionary American Eve
- "Perpetual Translation"
- "Sources": Creating a "Usable Past"
- Leaflets and Ghazals
- A "Social Instrument" in the Shape of a Woman Poet
- "The location of the Poet"
- Chapter Four: Marilyn Chin "The End of a Beginning"
- "We are the Ones Who are 'Making it New' "
- A New American Mode
- "Blues on Yellow"
- Poetic Inheritance
- "A Portrait of the Self as Nation"
- "Where we Live Now"
- Chapter Five: Sherman Alexie "Tradition Is Repetition"
- "The Great American Movie"
- "Watch This Guy. He's Making Myth."
- "The Reservation of My Mind"
- "Translated from the American"
- "Fry Bread Power"
- Primitive/Progressive
- Car Wrecks and Ceremonies
- Dreaming of a "New Shape"
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
