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Poetry after Barbarism : The Invention of Motherless Tongues and Resistance to Fascism.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scappettone, Jennifer.
- Series:
- Literature Now Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (540 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- Against a backdrop of xenophobic and ethnonationalist fantasies of linguistic purity, Poetry After Barbarism uncovers a stateless, polyglot poetry of resistance--the poetry of motherless tongues.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: From Babel to a Possible Pentecost: The Abracadabrant Word and the Invention of Xenoglossia
- 1 Wireless Imagination
- 2 Antifascist Philology and the Rejection of Linguistic Purity in Emilio Villa
- 3 Amelia Rossellis Disintegrating Canto(n)s and the Holy Ghost of Parental Tongues
- 4 Fog Is My Land
- 5 Glottal Stop
- Coda A Xenoglossic Community to Come: Belonging by Rogue Translation in Sawako Nakayasu and Sagawa Chikas Mouth: Eats Color
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Color Illustrations
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-231-55920-8
- OCLC:
- 1541774939
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