Poetry And The Language Of Oppression
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Author |
: Carmen Bugan |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 216 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198868323 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198868324 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Poetry and the Language of Oppression by : Carmen Bugan
A first-hand account of the creative process that engages with the language of oppression and with politics in our time. How does the poet become attuned to the language of the world's upheaval? How does one talk insightfully about suffering, without creating more of it? What is freedom in language and how does the poet who has endured political oppression write himself or herself free? What is literary testimony? Poetry and the Language of Oppression is a consideration of the creative process that rests on the conviction that poetry is of help in moments of public duress, providing an illumination of life and a healing language. Oppression, repression, expression, as well as their tools (prison, surveillance, gestures in language) have been with us in various forms throughout history, and this volume represents a particular aspect of these conditions of our humanity as they play out in our time, providing another instance of the communion, and sometimes confrontation, with the language that makes us human.
Author |
: John Barrell |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 1988 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0719024412 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780719024412 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Poetry, Language, and Politics by : John Barrell
Author |
: Shane McCrae |
Publisher |
: Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages |
: 105 |
Release |
: 2016-01-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780819577139 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0819577138 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis In the Language of My Captor by : Shane McCrae
Winner of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry (2017) Acclaimed poet Shane McCrae's latest collection is a book about freedom told through stories of captivity. Historical persona poems and a prose memoir at the center of the book address the illusory freedom of both black and white Americans. In the book's three sequences, McCrae explores the role mass entertainment plays in oppression, he confronts the myth that freedom can be based upon the power to dominate others, and, in poems about the mixed-race child adopted by Jefferson Davis in the last year of the Civil War, he interrogates the infrequently examined connections between racism and love. A reader's companion is available at wesleyan.edu/wespress/readerscompanions.
Author |
: Natalie Diaz |
Publisher |
: Graywolf Press |
Total Pages |
: 116 |
Release |
: 2020-03-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781644451137 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1644451131 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Postcolonial Love Poem by : Natalie Diaz
WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY FINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American Book Award Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz’s brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages—bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers—be touched and held as beloveds. Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tenderness: “Let me call my anxiety, desire, then. / Let me call it, a garden.” In this new lyrical landscape, the bodies of indigenous, Latinx, black, and brown women are simultaneously the body politic and the body ecstatic. In claiming this autonomy of desire, language is pushed to its dark edges, the astonishing dunefields and forests where pleasure and love are both grief and joy, violence and sensuality. Diaz defies the conditions from which she writes, a nation whose creation predicated the diminishment and ultimate erasure of bodies like hers and the people she loves: “I am doing my best to not become a museum / of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out. // I am begging: Let me be lonely but not invisible.” Postcolonial Love Poem unravels notions of American goodness and creates something more powerful than hope—in it, a future is built, future being a matrix of the choices we make now, and in these poems, Diaz chooses love.
Author |
: Haig A. Bosmajian |
Publisher |
: Upa |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1983 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0819131865 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780819131867 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Language of Oppression by : Haig A. Bosmajian
Examines decadence in our language, especially that language which leads to dehumanization and degradation of human beings. Powerful illustrations may be found in the fact that, for instance, Hitler's "Final Solution" appeared "reasonable" once the Jews were successfully labelled by the Nazis as sub-humans, "parasites," "vermin," or "bacilli." So, too, the subjugation of the American Indian was "defensible" since they were defined as "barbarians" and "savages." The author of this engrossing text that was originally published in 1974 by Public Affairs Press successfully identifies and critically comments on the racist, sexist, and ethnic slurs still predominant in society today, with the hope that this decadence will be cured. Winner of the 1983 George Orwell Award from the Committee on Doublespeak of the NCTE.
Author |
: Brad Evans |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2017-01-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781783602407 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1783602406 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Histories of Violence by : Brad Evans
While there is a tacit appreciation that freedom from violence will lead to more prosperous relations among peoples, violence continues to be deployed for various political and social ends. Yet the problem of violence still defies neat description, subject to many competing interpretations. Histories of Violence offers an accessible yet compelling examination of the problem of violence as it appears in the corpus of canonical figures – from Hannah Arendt to Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault to Slavoj Žižek – who continue to influence and inform contemporary political, philosophical, sociological, cultural, and anthropological study. Written by a team of internationally renowned experts, this is an essential interrogation of post-war critical thought as it relates to violence.
Author |
: Jane Gregory |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0998829021 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780998829029 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Yeah No by : Jane Gregory
Poetry. Jane Gregory's mystifying second collection, YEAH NO, begins with a "Knock knock," inviting the reader into a realmwhere "Everything is a pattern / of yesses and no." Within these pages we find Gregory constructing a multivalent world--ripe with struggle, prophecy, and, by the end, a resemblance of hope. Using her highly-tuned sensibility throughout, Gregory guides us through the anxieties of this journey by inventing new and enigmatic forms filled with sonic experimentation and polyphony. YEAH NO builds upon the singular vision found within her previous collection, MY ENEMIES, and continues her elegant and challenging address to poetry. "At the beginning it feels almost awkward (as well as anguished). Written in poems that are accretions containing both language that's constantly questioned and a more subtle, subterranean lyricism: 'the bower made of agitation' seems to be the form, and the book seems to be about being agitated by different impulses. Suddenly, more than mid-way, everything comes together into a new tone, and what was hesitance. is a method. 'I am against achievement,' Jane Gregory says in obvious and thrilling mastery of poetic form. She really takes over then. and the reader's pleasure is acute. This is a terrific book to go through."--Alice Notley "To take the relentless work of sensing/making/relating/judging/desiring/suffering/trying ('What? // Yes. and little else') and wrest it via language into bombs of awful hope and gorgeous despair just is poetry's job, and in YEAH NO Jane Gregory makes it fully and spectacularly hers. 'Thank what is clear / for the grimness,' she writes, 'what the future's retrojection bore a hole right through.' Gregory's taut and particular rigor is a contagion (read: corrective) that I dearly want to spread across the present tense. Take note of what happens to your heart--I mean the organ, 'tenderer. tenderer now'--as you read this mighty book."--Anna Moschovakis
Author |
: Safiya Sinclair |
Publisher |
: U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages |
: 117 |
Release |
: 2016-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780803295360 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0803295367 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cannibal by : Safiya Sinclair
Colliding with and confronting The Tempest and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair's Cannibal explore Jamaican childhood and history, race relations in America, womanhood, otherness, and exile. She evokes a home no longer accessible and a body at times uninhabitable, often mirrored by a hybrid Eve/Caliban figure. Blooming with intense lyricism and fertile imagery, these full-blooded poems are elegant, mythic, and intricately woven. Here the female body is a dark landscape; the female body is cannibal. Sinclair shocks and delights her readers with her willingness to disorient and provoke, creating a multitextured collage of beautiful and explosive poems.
Author |
: Vickie Vértiz |
Publisher |
: University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages |
: 70 |
Release |
: 2017-09-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780816537587 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0816537585 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut by : Vickie Vértiz
Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut uses both humor and sincerity to capture moments in time with a sense of compassion for the hard choices we must make to survive. Vértiz’s poetry shows how history, oppression, and resistance don’t just refer to big events or movements; they play out in our everyday lives, in the intimate spaces of family, sex, and neighborhood. Vértiz’s poems ask us to see Los Angeles—and all cities like it—as they have always been: an America of code-switching and reinvention, of lyric and fight.
Author |
: Santee Frazier |
Publisher |
: University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages |
: 73 |
Release |
: 2019-09-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780816539628 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0816539626 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Aurum by : Santee Frazier
Aurum is a fiercely original poetry collection that reveals the marginalized and estranged Native American experience in the wake of industrial progress. With unforgettable imagery and haunting honesty, these poems are powerfully resonant.