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The colonial moment : discoveries and settlements in modern American poetry /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Westover, Jeffrey W.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, [2004]
Subjects:
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Colonies in literature.
Nationalism and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : discoveries and settlements in modern American poetry
  • Marianne Moore's geography of origins
  • Nation and enunciation in the work of William Carlos Williams
  • National forgetting and remembering in the poetry of Robert Frost
  • Empire and America in the poetry of Hart Crane
  • Fragmentation and diaspora in the work of Langston Hughes
  • Epilogue : "We the People" in an imperial republic.