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"Fend for Meaningful Speech": Matters of Social Fact in Post-9/11 Documentary Poetry / Knar Gavin.
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Gavin, Knar, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature.
- British & Irish literature.
- Creative writing.
- Literature.
- English--Penn dissertations.
- Penn dissertations--English.
- Local Subjects:
- English literature.
- British & Irish literature.
- Creative writing.
- Literature.
- English--Penn dissertations.
- Penn dissertations--English.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
- Distribution:
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023
- Contained In:
- Dissertations Abstracts International 85-08A.
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] : University of Pennsylvania, 2022.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The struggle for people-planetary justice cannot proceed without rigorous efforts to name and reject the racist, colonial systems and processes within which the deathwork of ecological crisis is assured: ecological catastrophe is part of history, and far from prospective or yet to come, the ravages thereof are ongoing. The documentary poetry under consideration in this dissertation illuminates such ongoing people- and place-unmaking processes, rendering them at once intelligible and urgent. Through a combination of archival engagement and formal experimentation, the poets in this study-among them Muriel Rukeyser, Yedda Morrison, Kaia Sand, and Emily Abendroth-use factual elements to presence the complex social realities and preconditions of ecological crisis. Carving out charged spaces for readerly activation, environmentalist inquiry, and prefigurative political possibility, these poets re-socialize "matters of fact" to disrupt the estranging, depoliticizing power of everyday beliefs, institutions, and values. In the face of the story- and reality-making, death-dealing capacities of the post-9/11 state, the practitioners examined in this project produce invitational, socially-capacitating work that opens into vital forms of uncommon sense-making. This dissertation embarks from a conviction that docupoetry has an important social role to play here in the tumult of the now: the public must be re-founded (over and over again, if necessary) and joint interests and lines of solidarity, revealed and fortified. Considered together, the poetry collections in this corpus offer a set of models for how documentary poetry might instigate more active forms of political engagement and compel readers beyond the space of the book and into the terrain of emplaced social struggle.
- Notes:
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-08, Section: A.
- Advisors: Park, Josephine Nock-Hee; Committee members: Mukherjee, Rahul; Saint-Amour, Paul.
- Department: English.
- Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 2023.
- Local Notes:
- School code: 0175
- ISBN:
- 9798381472189
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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