A poetics of global solidarity : modern American poetry and social movements /

"A Poetics of Global Solidarity traces the transformations of the engaged tradition of modern and contemporary American poetry and its imagination of a collective subject position rooted in a vision of global solidarity. The presence or absence of social and political movements has crucially sh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Spahr, Clemens (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Series:	Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics.
Subjects:	American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism. Poetry > Social aspects > United States > History. Poetry > Political aspects > United States > History. American poetry > 21st century > History and criticism. Songs > Texts > History and criticism. Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century. Literature and society > United States > History > 21st century. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry. American poetry. Literature and society. Poetry > Political aspects. Poetry > Social aspects. Songs. United States. 1900-2099 Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Texts.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. "Blazing Signals of a World in Birth": Lyrical Expression and International Solidarity from the Literary Left to the Popular Front
2. Global Harlem: The Internationalism of the Harlem Renaissance
3. Remapping America: The Epic Geography of Post-World War II American Poetry
4. From Cuba to Vietnam: Anti-Imperialist Poetics and Global Solidarity in the Long Sixties
5. Contemporary American Poetry and the Legacy of the Third World
6. Contemporary American Poetry, Literary Tradition, and the Multitude
Conclusion.