Writing Plural Worlds in Contemporary U.S. Poetry: Innovative Identities by J. K

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This book reveals how poets within the U.S. multi-ethnic avant-garde give up the goal of narrating one comprehensive, rooted view of cultural reality in favour of constructing coherent accounts of relational, local selves and worlds.

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This book reveals how poets within the U.S. multi-ethnic avant-garde give up the goal of narrating one comprehensive, rooted view of cultural reality in favour of constructing coherent accounts of relational, local selves and worlds.

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Keller addresses the paucity of critical heft given to contemporary Chicano cultural studies scholars

Author Biography

JAMES KELLER is Assistant Professor of English at Michigan State University, USA.

Table of Contents

Plural Worlds: Agonistic, Innovative, Positive Forms of Fire and Time: Plural Worlds of the Aztec in Chicano Serial Poetry and the Case of Alurista Form and Social Formation in Chicano/a Experimental Writing 'Bridges Dead in the Water' and Islands of Intelligibility in an Age of Global Structure 'Tongues are Tied': The 'Languagely' Horizon of Shared Witness Plural World Polytheism and 'Historical Agnostics'

Review

"Ethnic and experimental poetry are often naively seen as oppositional, but Keller celebrates that both are part of the warp and woof of the complicated linguistic relations of this contemporary moment. He understands that poetry is all about self-contained but open, agonistically engaged local worldhood. Writing Plural Worlds in Contemporary U.S. Poetry is impressive and moving for its devoted attention to how contemporary U.S. poetry both thrives and extends its attentions beyond the boundaries of the U.S. nation." - Juliana Spahr, co-editor of Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary"Close readings of poems from a variety of North American writers - among them Nathaniel Mackey, N. J. Loftis, Francisco Alarcon - skillfully and eloquently offer convincing evidence to underwrite the book s central argument, which blends European philosophy with New World understandings of culture and representation to put forth a concept of innovative identitarian pluralism rather than multiculturalism. Moreover, the warmth and writerly grace of the style make the book and its argument more than merely convincing, but also a pleasure to read. This book comprises a significant contribution to American (in its broadest sense) letters." - Maria Damon, Professor of English, University of Minnesota and author of The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry

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"Ethnic and experimental poetry are often naively seen as oppositional, but Keller celebrates that both are part of the warp and woof of the complicated linguistic relations of this contemporary moment. He understands that poetry is all about self-contained but open, agonistically engaged local worldhood. Writing Plural Worlds in Contemporary U.S. Poetry is impressive and moving for its devoted attention to how contemporary U.S. poetry both thrives and extends its attentions beyond the boundaries of the U.S. nation." - Juliana Spahr, co-editor of Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary "Close readings of poems from a variety of North American writers - among them Nathaniel Mackey, N. J. Loftis, Francisco Alarcon - skillfully and eloquently offer convincing evidence to underwrite the book s central argument, which blends European philosophy with New World understandings of culture and representation to put forth a concept of innovative identitarian pluralism rather than multiculturalism. Moreover, the warmth and writerly grace of the style make the book and its argument more than merely convincing, but also a pleasure to read. This book comprises a significant contribution to American (in its broadest sense) letters." - Maria Damon, Professor of English, University of Minnesota and author of The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry

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Keller addresses the paucity of critical heft given to contemporary Chicano cultural studies scholars

Details ISBN0230612202 Short Title WRITING PLURAL WORLDS IN CONTE Language English ISBN-10 0230612202 ISBN-13 9780230612204 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2009 Pages 229 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle Innovative Identities Country of Publication United Kingdom Place of Publication Basingstoke DOI 10.1604/9780230612204 UK Release Date 2009-09-18 AU Release Date 2009-09-18 NZ Release Date 2009-09-18 Illustrations X, 229 p. Author J. Keller Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Publication Date 2009-09-18 Alternative 9781349376926 DEWEY 811.5409920693 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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