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Nations of Nothing But Poetry - Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Writing (Hardcover)
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Nations of Nothing But Poetry - Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Writing (Hardcover)
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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