Poetry and the Language of Oppression
Essays on Politics and Poetics
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 June 2021
- ISBN 9780198868323
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages216 pages
- Size 222x145x18 mm
- Weight 414 g
- Language English 113
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Short description:
Reflecting on the process of creating literature out of personal testimony and drawing on her own experience of political oppression and escaping persecution, Carmen Bugan explores the relationship between language and freedom.
MoreLong description:
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.
... beautiful and intensely scrupulous ... Throughout the book, Bugan's own highly regarded poetry serves to distil the essence of her far-ranging political and cultural analysis and to re-enact it in verse that strikes close to home -- home that for her stricken family was a target of Nicolae Ceaulsescu's fascist regime.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction: "Visiting the Country of My Birth"
Sounding the Deeps of Nature: Lyric Language and the Language of Oppression
The "lyric I": Private and Public Narratives
Resettling in the English Language
Artistic Distance and the Language of Oppression
Writing in Turbulent Times
Conclusion: Lumina Mea
