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Poetry in a Time of Terror
Essays in the Postcolonial Preternatural
Rukmini Bhaya Nair
224 pages
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215x140mm
978-0-19806076-5
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Hardback
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16 July 2009
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- Author is an internationally distinguished academic
- Book addresses diverse issues to do with nation, language, translation, borders, gender, sexuality, etc.
- Wide range of themes will attract large audience
- Important reading material for courses in English Literature, Cultural Studies, and Gender Studies
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.Readership: Students and scholars of literature, history, gender studies, and cultural studies
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Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Head of Department, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Professor of Linguistics and English, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
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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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