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Nations of Nothing But Poetry - Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Writing (Paperback)
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Nations of Nothing But Poetry - Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Writing (Paperback)
Series: Modernist Literature and Culture
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Modernism is typically associated with novelty and urbanity. So
what happens when poets identify small communities and local
languages with the spirit of transnational modernity? Are
vernacular poetries inherently provincial or implicitly xenophobic?
How did modernist poets use vernacular language to re-imagine the
relations between people, their languages, and the communities in
which they live? Nations of Nothing But Poetry answers these
questions through case studies of British, Caribbean, and American
poetries from the 1920s through the 1990s. With a combination of
fresh insights and attentive close readings, Matthew Hart presents
a new theory of a "synthetic vernacular"-writing that explores the
aesthetic and ideological tensions within modernism's dual
commitments to the local and the global. The result is an
invigorating contribution to the field of transnational modernist
studies. Chapters focus on a mixture of canonical and non-canonical
writers, combining new literary histories-such as the story of how
Melvin B. Tolson, while a resident of Oklahoma, was appointed Poet
Laureate of Liberia-with analyses of poems by Gertrude Stein, W. H.
Auden, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot. More broadly, the book reveals
how the language of modernist poetry was shaped by the incompletely
globalized nature of a world in which the nation-state continued to
be a primary mediator of cultural and political identity, even as
its authority was challenged as never before. Through deft
juxtaposition, Hart develops a new interpretation of modernist
poetry in English-one that disrupts the critical opposition between
nationalism and the transnational, paving the way for a political
history of modernist cosmopolitanism.
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