Another throat : twenty-first-century Black US persona poetry and the archive /

The early twenty-first century has seen a sharp rise in Black US poets employing the mask of persona, often including and interrogating archival materials as they do so. While some have observed this rise and noted its connection to historical figures, Ryan Sharp explores it more deeply, as a projec...

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Autor principal: Sharp, Ryan (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2024]
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469680668_sharp
Taula de continguts:
  • Introduction: Signifyin' on the archive
  • Translating misconstrued words. Elizabeth Alexander's American sublime and the folk hero as persona
  • Adrian Matejka's The big smoke and the shadow of the archive
  • Listening for the unsaid. Frank X Walker's Buffalo dance and the talking book
  • Natasha Trethewey's Native guard and persona as palimpsest
  • Refashioning dis/nonfigured lives. Cornelius Eady's Brutal imagination and the plausible villain/victim
  • Patricia Smith's Blood dazzler and reading (through) the spectacle
  • Coda: Poetic fabulation.