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Multicultural Poetics: Re-visioning the American Canon

Multicultural Poetics: Re-visioning the American Canon

Parmar, Nissa

Paperback

Series: Suny Multiethnic Literatures

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 143846844X
ISBN13: 9781438468440
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 2 2019
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Argues that multiculturalism and hybridity are key components of the nation's poetry and its culture.

Multicultural Poetics provides a new perspective on American poetry that will contribute to the evolution of contemporary critical practice. Nissa Parmar combines formalist analysis with cultural studies theory to trace a lineage of hybrid poetry from the American Renaissance to what Marilyn Chin deemed America's multicultural renaissance, the blossoming of multicultural literature in the 1980s and 1990s. This re-visionary literary history begins by analyzing Whitman and Dickinson as postcolonial poets. This critical approach provides an alternative to the factionalism that has characterized twentieth-century American poetic history and continues to inform literary criticism in the twenty-first century. Parmar uses a multiethnic, multigender method that emphasizes the relationship between American poetic form and cultural development. This book provides a new approach by using hybridity as the critical paradigm for a study that groups multiethnic and emergent authors. It thereby combats literary ghettoization while revealing commonalities across American literatures and the cross-fertilization that has informed their development.

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