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Behind the lines : war resistance poetry on the American homefront since 1941 /
Behind the Lines investigates American war resistance poetry from the Second World War through the Iraq wars. Rather than simply chronicling the genre, Philip Metres argues that this poetry gets to the heart of who is authorized to speak about war and how it can be represented. As such, he explores...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Contemporary North American poetry series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1. World War II: the poetics of conscientious objection
- Robert Lowell's refusals: memories of war resistance in prison
- William Stafford's lost landmarks: the poetics of Pacifism and the limits of lyric
- William Everson and the Fine Arts Camp: from Utopian hopes to a chronicle of division
- Part 2. Vietnam: the war on the homefront
- Bringing it all back home: from anthology to action
- Denise Levertov's distant witness: the politics of identification
- Part 3. The Persian Gulf War: protest and the postmodern
- The Gump War: lyric resistance poetry in crisis
- June Jordan's righteous certainty: poetic address in resistance poetry
- Barrett Watten's bad history: a counter-epic of the Gulf War
- Coda. Proliferations: sites of resistance since September 11, 2001.