000			01523cam a2200157ua 4500
020			_a9780198060765
082			_a809.1 _bRUK/P
100			_aRukmini Bhaya Nair
245	0	0	_aPoetry in a time of terror: essays in the postcolonial preternatural
260			_aNew Delhi _bOxford University Press _c2009
300			_a231p.
520			_aThese 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.
650			_aTerrorism, Poetry
650	0		_aLiterature
942			_cBK
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