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Biografisk notat
Maria Damon is a professor of English at the University of Minnesota and the author of The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry.Ira Livingston is a professor and chair of humanities and media studies at Pratt Institute; his most recent book is Between Science and Literature: An Introduction to Autopoetics."Recommended."--<i>Choice</i> "A brilliant resource."--<i>Rain Taxi</i> "It is time for this book. Poetry is studied more and more frequently with a cultural studies approach, and Damon and Livingston provide the perfect balance in this collection."--Juliana Spahr, coeditor of <i>Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary</i> and author of several collections of poetry "A reader that brings together foundational essays on the conjunction of poetry and cultural studies is not just timely but more and more urgent as the canon of poetry taught in the academy opens beyond a small clutch of 'masterpieces' and cultural studies begins to engage popular poetry, newspaper poetry, rap, slam, and other ephemeral performance poetries. This book is an important intervention in the reconfiguration of these fields of study."--Adalaide Morris, author of <i>How to Live/What to Do: H.D.'s Cultural Poetics</i>
The writings in Poetry and Cultural Studies also acknowledge the major contributions of both the Frankfurt School, with its close analyses of reading and writing lyric poetry as social practices, and of the Birmingham School's major contributions toward broadening the field of artifacts permissible for serious study with the primarily literary tools of close reading of textual/textural detail. It is a volume that speaks to students, academics, poetry enthusiasts, and those interested in social movements, including slammers, academics, workshop leaders, and poetry theorists.
INTRODUCTION 1
Maria Damon and Ira Livingston
Precursors
1 Preface to Lyrical Ballads 21
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
2 Two Essays on Poetry and Society 25
THEODOR ADORNO
3 On Some Motifs in Baudelaire 37
WALTER BENJAMIN
4 What Is a Minor Literature? 56
GILLES DELEUZE AND FELIX GUATTARI
5 Of the Sorrow Songs 61
W. E. B. DU BOIS
6 A Theory of Discourse 67
ANTONY EASTHOPE
Ethnography
7 Some Aspects of Folk Poetry 77
AMERICO PAREDES
8 The Signifying Monkey and the Language of Signifyin(g): Rhetorical Difference and the Orders of Meaning 90
HENRY LOUIS GATES JR.
9 Shifting Politics in Bedouin Love Poetry 116
LILA ABU-LAUGHOD
10 The Poetric Construction of Self 133
STEVEN C. CATON
11 Tell Them about Us: Some Poems from Southie 147
MARIA DAMON
Mass Culture/Cultural Politics
12 The Bride of the Assembly Line: Radical Poetics in Construction 163
BARRETT WATTEN
13 Assembly Poetics in the Global Economy: Nicaragua 177
BRUCE CAMPBELL
14 Black Texts/Black Contexts 195
TRICIA ROSE
15 Kickin' Eality, Kickin' Ballistics: Gangsta Rap and Postindustrial Los Angeles 199
ROBIN D. G. KELLEY
16 Poetry for the People 213
AMITAVA KUMAR
17 La Douceur de foyer: Lyric Poetry of the Year1857 as a Model for the Communication of Social Norms 226
HANS ROBERT JAUSS
National (De)Formations
18 Smoke Rings: Worker-Poets in the France of Louis-Philippe 237
JACQUES RANCIERE
19 Rimbaud and the Transformation of Social Space 248
KRISTIN ROSS
20 Poetry and the Public: The Social Form of Modern U.S. Poetics 266
JOSEPH HARRINGTON
21 Nation and Imagination 285
DIPESH CHAKRABARTY
22 Angel Island and the Poetics of Error 301
YUNTE HUANG
23 "HOO, HOO, HOO": Some Episodes in the Construction of Modern Male Whiteness 310
RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS
Subject (De)Formations
24 A Poem Is Being Written 333
EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK
25 A Musician Is Being Beaten 340
JOHN MOWITT
26 Poetry and Anthropology 347
TRINH T. MINH-HA
27 Poetry Is Not a Luxury 355
AUDRE LORDE
28 A Blow Is Like an Instrument 359
CHARLES BERNSTEIN 359
Reinventing Tradition
29 Sappho Is Burning: Fragmentary Introduction 375
PAGE DUBOIS
30 Genocide, Modernism, and American Verse: Reading Diana Der-Hovanessian 390
WALTER KALAIDJIAN
31 The Forms of Things Unknown 406
STEPHEN HENDERSON
32 History of the Voice, 1979=1981 417
KAMAU BRATHWAITE
33 Of Poetry and Power: Maya Angelou on the Inaugural Stage 428
ZOFIA BURR
34 Nuyorican Language 437
MIGUEL ALGARIN
INDEX 447