Poetic Investigations : Singing the Holes in History Paperback / softback
by Paul Naylor
Part of the Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies series
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:203 pages
- Publisher:Northwestern University Press
- Publication Date:30/09/1999
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- ISBN:9780810116689
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:203 pages
- Publisher:Northwestern University Press
- Publication Date:30/09/1999
- Category:
- ISBN:9780810116689
