Performing Poetry - Body, Place and Rhythm in the Poetry Performance
Performing Poetry - Body, Place and Rhythm in the Poetry Performance
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表演诗歌——诗歌表演中的身体、地点和节奏
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10.1163/9789401200257_013
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2011
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Gräbner C
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Deirdre Osborne voice, a resistant orality to predominant socio-cultural norms. 2 Moreover, it is productive to consider the resonance between poetry as publicly uttered medium and the implications of Harryette Mullen’s coinage “resistant orality,” by which she characterizes specifically the creative voices of African American women’s slave-narrative writing. For black poets in Britain similarly speak back to, speak out against, and rewrite (poetic) traditions, as “neo-millennial black British avant-garde poets,” who, R. Victoria Arana argues,“do not at all see themselves as migrants, exiles, or nomads, but as British citizens with certain inalienable rights in their birthlands, the various (now ‘devolving’) but still United ‘States’(rather than Kingdom) of a Britain no longer Great”(Arana 2002: 49–50). Wright (2000), Dawes (2005), and Tutu (2007) have explored the complex ramifications of the live performance associations for the work of black poets in Britain, revealing various emancipatory, celebratory, reductive, and restrictive receptions in contexts spanning audiences and critics. Labeling can produce a fight or flight reflex, as Kwame Dawes notes:“a desire to run away from the label, or embrace it with defiance and as a kind of statement of race and aesthetics”(282). In parodic reference to himself in an objectifying third-person pronoun, Sissay challenges the condescension of the performance straitjacket:If Lemn Sissay’s live audience is moved by his work—and he loves reading live—this does not equate with his readings being a “performance.” He believes the description (in its everyday usage) implies an act. And an act implies an untruth. Indeed it is often used as a disingenuous accolade, particularly in Britain. To truly see the misapplication of the term simply look at its supposed opposite (or supposed opponent)—“Page Poetry”. Lemn Sissay believes this too to be a bizarre banal non-descript term and can find neither page nor performance poetry in the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.(Morning Breaks 70) 3