Poetry in a time of terror: essays in the postcolonial preternatural
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2009Description: 231pISBN: 9780198060765Subject(s): Terrorism, Poetry | LiteratureDDC classification: 809.1 Summary: These essays, together with a detailed Introduction and Postscript, broadly focus on the question of poetry. Wide ranging in their references, and written in a lyrical and inviting style, the writings engage with a host of political questions relating to nation, language, translation, borders, gender, sexuality, and more. How can an individual poet define her own voice in the face of the overwhelming presence of earlier, often dead, poets' voices? What connect our 'new' postcolonial, transnational anxieties to the rampant celebrations of cruelty and torture that have always been the subject of poetry from humankind's earliest epics? Is poetry the antithesis of terror or is it terror's very essence? While grappling with these questions, the underlying premise is that poems, even the most apparently everyday ones, are texts of crisis; they are our first language when confronted with the incomprehensible, with sublime joy, or with terror out of the sky. The book will be of interest to scholars and researchers from many disciplines including literature, history, gender studies, and cultural studies.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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809 TWE A twentieth century literature reader: texts and debates | 809.1 PER/H History of modern poetry | 809.1 ROB/P Poetry, poets, readers: making things happen | 809.1 RUK/P Poetry in a time of terror: essays in the postcolonial preternatural | 809.132 CAM The Cambridge companion to the epic | 809.2 PEY/P Postcolonial drama: a comparative study of Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott and Girish Karnad | 809.2 SAN/L The language of drama |
These essays, together with a detailed Introduction and Postscript, broadly focus on the question of poetry. Wide ranging in their references, and written in a lyrical and inviting style, the writings engage with a host of political questions relating to nation, language, translation, borders, gender, sexuality, and more. How can an individual poet define her own voice in the face of the overwhelming presence of earlier, often dead, poets' voices? What connect our 'new' postcolonial, transnational anxieties to the rampant celebrations of cruelty and torture that have always been the subject of poetry from humankind's earliest epics? Is poetry the antithesis of terror or is it terror's very essence? While grappling with these questions, the underlying premise is that poems, even the most apparently everyday ones, are texts of crisis; they are our first language when confronted with the incomprehensible, with sublime joy, or with terror out of the sky. The book will be of interest to scholars and researchers from many disciplines including literature, history, gender studies, and cultural studies.
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