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discoveries and settlements in modern American poetry

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An edition of The colonial moment (2004)

The colonial moment

discoveries and settlements in modern American poetry

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"In The Colonial Moment, Jeffrey Westover shows how five major poets - Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Hart Crane, and Langston Hughes - drew from national conflicts to assess America's new role as world leader." "Sensitive to the nation's memory of colonial brutality, these poets mingled their pride in America with moral protest against racism. Some identified a dark side to the nation's history, particularly in the conflicts between white pioneers and Native Americans, that haunted their otherwise confident celebrations of patriotism. Others used poetry as a vehicle of discovery to challenge existing historical accounts, or to criticize the failures of American democracy. Investigating these five major writers in terms of their cultural and political moment, Westover demonstrates how they dramatized the process of nation-building." "Colonization inevitably results in a sense of displacement. Each of these five poets struggled with such cultural alienation - especially those who belonged to a racial, sexual, or gender minority. They endeavored to unite their voices in a "vocabulary of the national," a search to define the concept of "we" that would encompass all modern readers while recognizing those whom previous generations had dismissed. In this way, each writer hoped to redeem the country's losses symbolically through language."--BOOK JACKET.

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The colonial moment: discoveries and settlements in modern American poetry
2004, Northern Illinois University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-225) and index.

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DeKalb

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
811/.509358
Library of Congress
PS310.C62 W47 2004, PS310.C62W47 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
237 p. ;
Number of pages
237

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Open Library
OL3681574M
Internet Archive
colonialmomentdi0000west
ISBN 10
0875803253
LCCN
2003027082
OCLC/WorldCat
53953765
Goodreads
3960714

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