Beyond ambiguity : tracing literary sites of activism / John Kinsella.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kinsella, John, 1926- author.

Series:

Angelaki humanities.

Angelaki Humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and society.

Poetry--History and criticism.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, England : Manchester University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

A literary critical book which is a toolkit for (peaceful) concerted activism on behalf of environment and issues of human rights and justice.

Contents:

Introduction: Localities

How does the activist cope with ambiguity?

Resisting the compliant text

The truth should be in blurbs, encomiums, references, letters of support and launch speeches etc.

An Unambiguous Response to Helen MacDonald's Article The Forbidden Wonder of Birds' Nests and Eggs'

How do poems come out of conversations?

On being an ethical vegan for thirty-three or so years...

No pets but surrounded by animals- proximity sensors and warnings

Dream pastoral inversions: re-approaching pastoral fraughtness through questions of Australian rurality

Celebrating Fay Zwicky

A dissenting imagination: disambiguations

Places we do or don't go to not only in person, but also in writing

`Precise poems' are more ambiguous than we might think: on Judith Wright's Collected Poems

On Georgina Arnott's The Unknown Judith Wright

On Alison Whittaker's poetry collection Blakwork: a letter to an editor

Non-ambiguous: dispossession and culpability

on Ambelin Kwaymullina's Living on Stolen Land

On Glen Phillips's Collected Poems 1968-2018: In the Hollow of the Land

A poet's personal appreciation of Les Murray (in memoriam, April, 2019)

IM Bruce Dawe, 2020

Sinews

on Siobhan Hodge's Justice for Romeo

On Matt Hall's poetry collection, False Fruits: habitation and the `Consonant Feather'

On Kim Seung-Hee's Hope Is Lonely

On Philip Neilsen's MS Wildlife of Berlin

On Omar Sakr's The Lost Arabs

On Paul Kelly's 2017 album/CD Life is Fine

The polyphony of voices brought together

The inherent reciprocities of memoir-making: on the memoirs of Evelyn Shaldr and George Ellenbogen

On an innovative poet's book, never published: introduction to Scott Patrick-Mitchell's Vade Mecum

Working with Urs Jaeggi

On Textures of Ambiguity

On my own, my language is not alone

Rocks can burn, too: and there's nothing ambiguous about it

Poetry can lead to speculative `realist' fiction: the inspiration behind Hollow Earth

On Spenser's stanza `Virtue gives itself light'

Consuming rebellions and the need for non-violent protest

Extinction Rebellion is too much about image and not enough about its own impacts

TOWARDS `CONCLUSIONS': Disembodying and re-embodying the poem as act of acknowledgement of land rights and a rejection of `property': on acts and actioning of environmentally concerned poetry ; Resist! Against cruelty- emphasis without violence ; Conclusion to Beyond Ambiguity and a triptych of poetics.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781526160058

1526160056

9781526160072

1526160072

OCLC:

1301065384