Writing plural worlds in contemporary U.S. poetry: innovative identities

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. INDICE: Plural Worlds: Agonistic, Innovative, Positive - Forms of Fire andTime: Plural Worlds of the Aztec in Chicano Serial Poetry and the Case of Alurista - Form and Social Formation in Chicano/a Experimental Writing - 'BridgesDead 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'

• ISBN: 978-0-230-61220-4
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 240
• Fecha Publicación: 18/09/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés