1st Edition

Articulations of Resistance Transformative Practices in Contemporary Arab-American Poetry

By Sirène H. Harb Copyright 2020
214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

Using a theoretical framework located at the intersection of US ethnic studies, transnational studies, and postcolonial studies, Articulations of Resistance: Transformative Practices in Contemporary Arab-American Poetry maps an interdisciplinary model of critical inquiry to demonstrate the intimate link and multilayered connections between poetry and resistance. In this study of contemporary... Read more

Introduction

1 Haunted Spaces: Ghostliness, Loss, and Violence

2 Translating 9/11: Contrapuntalism, Dialogism, and Necropolitics

3 Bilingualism, Cultural Foreignization, and Formal Innovation

4 Centrifugal Forces and Articulations of Resistance: The Poetry of June Jordan and Suheir Hammad

Conclusion

Biography

Sirène H. Harb is an Associate Professor of American and Comparative Literature at the American University of Beirut.