Poetry in a Time of Terror
Essays in the Postcolonial Preternatural
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP India
- Date of Publication 16 July 2009
- ISBN 9780198060765
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 225x148x19 mm
- Weight 445 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
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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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction o Poetry as Crisis: Heroism beyond the Human o Sign into Meaning: Contemporary Culture and Individual Talent o The Evil Queen: Women's Voices o Krishna's Flute: Poetry in Translation o The Sensuous Conch of Theory: Postcolonial Mastery o Colonial Cousins: Modern British Poetry o Nature's History: Creating a Gandhian Space for Peace o Strange Meeting: The Man Who Carried Tagore to his Death o Country Lullabies: The Anthem as a Song of the Nation o Across the
Border: Pakistani Poetry in English o When the Sky Falls: Creativity in Poetry o Absolute Freedom and Terror: Postscript
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