Crisis and Contemporary Poetry
Crisis and Contemporary Poetry
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危机与当代诗歌
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10.1057/9780230306097_15
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2011
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Osborne D
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The work of two of Britain’s leading indigenous black poets and performers, SuAndi and Lemn Sissay reinforces the powerful, self-fashioning capabilities of the art of poetry as counterstance and counterbalance–both to prevailing social norms that devalue and oppress certain groups of people based upon race and sex-gender categories, and to prevailing aesthetic traditions which denote inclusion or exclusion within the British literary compass and its markers of artistic merit. This chapter explores the idea of ‘poetry as its own vindicating force’(Heaney, 1988, p. 92) in SuAndi’s and Sissay’s creative aesthetics, while remaining mindful of the implications of contexts–explicit or implied–and their effect upon meaning. As black artists evolving in white-dominated creative contexts, their poetic voices interweave the dual legacies of being born in Britain (inheriting British literary and performance heritages) and yet also frequently identifying with African diasporic traditions as a resistance to their socio-political marginalization in national, racial and familial relations. Their work spans written and spoken-word genres (poetry, monodrama) and presents a challenge to existing critical methodologies. Both writers position themselves unequivocally within the scope of Black British writing, a category which crystallized at the end of the twentieth century and towards which critical attention has been increasingly turned in the new millennium. It is understood as encompassing the writing of indigenous black Britons whose work speaks from a sensibility and standpoint quite distinct from the arriviste or migration narratives of previous generations in the UK, who termed themselves black writers. In asserting their indigenous and creatively represented identities, SuAndi and Sissay exemplify a generation whose work, Jackaman claims, subverts ‘a reductive hard core notion of “Englishness” in poetry’as it is ‘directed precisely towards the breaking of English as a monopoly concern’, to
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2005
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Moynagh Sullivan
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Moynagh Sullivan
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1960
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R. Jakobson
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R. Jakobson