Translingual poetics : writing personhood under settler colonialism / Sarah Dowling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dowling, Sarah, 1982- author.

Series:

Contemporary North American poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multilingualism and literature.

English language--Globalization.

Poetics.

Code switching (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

xi, 223 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2018]

Summary:

"Since the 1980s, poets in Canada and the U.S. have increasingly turned away from the use of English, bringing multiple languages into dialogue--and into conflict--in their work. This growing but under-studied body of writing differs from previous forms of multilingual poetry. While modernist poets offered multilingual displays of literary refinement, contemporary translingual poetries speak to and are informed by feminist, anti-racist, immigrants' rights, and Indigenous sovereignty movements. Although some translingual poems have entered Chicanx, Latinx, Asian American, and Indigenous literary canons, translingual poetry has not yet been studied as a cohesive body of writing. Its linguistic verve and variety has prevented scholars from fully engaging this work"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : translingual poetics, settler monolingualism

The translingual book

The lyric person, the legal person, and the racial nonperson

Abstract citizenship and alien racialization

Machine reading and the politics of recognition

Conclusion : refusing settler monolingualisms.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Dowling, Sarah, 1982- author. Translingual poetics

ISBN:

9781609386061

160938606X

OCLC:

1031159359