Trauma in 20th Century Multicultural American Poetry

Unmuted Verse

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Trauma in 20th Century Multicultural American Poetry

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In Trauma in 20th Century Multicultural American Poetry, Jamie D. Barker argues that by using literary trauma theory in conjunction with a reader response approach, readers can gain a better understanding of how poetry can work towards building community and encouraging empowerment over oppression by establishing collectives of people who may share similar stories and experiences connected to trauma. Rather than demonstrating how the poetry may fail or trying to establish what traumatic events the speaker (or poet, in some studies) may have encountered and the significance thereof, this study focuses on how the reader may find community with the ideas represented within the poem. The poetry of various ethnicities are examined, including African American poets Amiri Baraka and Lucille Clifton, Native American poets Robin Coffee, Linda Hogan, and Peter Blue Cloud, as well as Japanese American poets Mitsuye Yamada, Keiho Soga, and Lawson Fusao Inada. Although many of these poets have had their poems examined in the past, none have been explored through this type of approach. Furthermore, very few studies have expanded upon the ideas of literary trauma theory by using reader response, and no writings have examined the idea of ambivalence in poetry as this study does.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Afterword

Bibliography

Product details

Published 06 Feb 2020
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 178
ISBN 9781498592703
Imprint Lexington Books
Series Reading Trauma and Memory
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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