Poetry after barbarism : the invention of motherless tongues and resistance to fascism /
""For much of the the twentieth century the notion of a linguistic purity has been tied to national identity and nationalism. However, as Jennifer Scappettone argues in Poetry after Barbarism , there has also been a tradition of artists and writers who have employed a multiplicity of langu...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Literature now.
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| Summary: | ""For much of the the twentieth century the notion of a linguistic purity has been tied to national identity and nationalism. However, as Jennifer Scappettone argues in Poetry after Barbarism , there has also been a tradition of artists and writers who have employed a multiplicity of languages and sign systems that have resisted these authoritarian impulses. Their works have drawn on strangeness and incomprehensibility to critique nationalist absolutism to envision alternative forms of community. Scappettone discusses a wide range of modernist and contemporary poets whose works employ multiple and even sometimes invented languages that interact primarily with English and Italian. She begins by considering the fraught inheritance of the Italian futurists and their supranationalism and support of colonial expansion. She then turns to to postwar writers operating in the immediate aftermath of the Fascist moment of ultranationalism, of the barbarism of colonial rule and its uneven disintegration. These poets experimented within a different constellation of national or subnational languages shaped by their experiences of migration or exile, and in each chapter, Scappettone highlights how their poetic work also drew on a different medium of operation to create more accommodating spaces for translingual contact, including the artist's book in Emilio Villa, music and sound in Amelia Rosselli, painting and calligraphy in Etel Adnan, and vocal performance in LaTasha N-Nevada-Diggs. The book concludes by speculating on how criticism can respond to the threat of rising fascism and the promise inherent in the present-day mixture of languages.""-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 383 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231212083 0231212089 9780231212090 0231212097 |