Revolutionary Poetics : Decolonial Poetry and the Time of Liberation.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Padilla, Javier.

Series:

SUNY Series, Literature... in Theory Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.

Dussel, Enrique, 1934-.

Mir, Pedro, 1913-2000.

Depestre, René, 1926-.

Cardenal, Ernesto, 1925-2020.

Poetry.

Time in literature.

Local Subjects:

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.

Dussel, Enrique, 1934-.

Mir, Pedro, 1913-2000.

Depestre, René, 1926-.

Cardenal, Ernesto, 1925-2020.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2026.

Summary:

Demonstrates the centrality of thinking about time to decolonial poetry and poetics.Revolutionary Poetics considers the role of politically engaged poetry during social revolutions and processes of decolonization.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Decolonial Moment

From Aesthetic to Political Revolution

A Note on Method: Liberation, Postcoloniality, and Decoloniality

On Revolution

On Temporality

Plan of the Book

1. Reading W. B. Yeats Between Modernity and Coloniality

2. Enrique Dussel, Pedro Mir, and the Poetics of Liberation

Locating Liberation Theology as a Political Theology

Saint Paul and Political Theology in Contemporary Thought

Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation and Marx's Theological Metaphors

The Monroe Doctrine as Exception: Pedro Mir's "Countersong to Walt Whitman"

Dussel's Aesthetic Turn and the Poetics of Liberation

3. René Depestre, Kairos, and Time of the Tricontinental

From Kairos to the Historical Rupture of Decolonization

The Tricontinental Conference and Decolonial Transnationalism

Depestre: Epiphany, Kairos, and Decolonized Time

4. The Decolonial Poet-Martyr

The Decolonial Poet-Martyr

Comparative Conceptions of the Poet-Martyr: On Okigbo and Dalton

Okigbo's "Lament of the Masks" and "Come Thunder" and Dalton's "Los hongos"

Conclusion: Commemorating the Poet-Martyr

5. The Decolonial Instant in Ernesto Cardenal's Documentary Poems

Coda: Citationality, Martyrdom, and Kairos in South Africa

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Padilla, Javier Revolutionary Poetics

ISBN:

9798855808421

OCLC:

1597385333