MARC Record from marc_columbia

LEADER: 03330cam a2200361 a 4500
001 4814584
005 20221103041903.0
008 031215t20042004ilu b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2003027082
020 $a0875803253 (acid-free paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm53953765
035 $a(NNC)4814584
035 $a4814584
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dC#P$dOrLoB-B
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aPS310.C62$bW47 2004
082 00 $a811/.509358$222
100 1 $aWestover, Jeffrey W.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003028363
245 14 $aThe colonial moment :$bdiscoveries and settlements in modern American poetry /$cJeffrey W. Westover.
260 $aDeKalb :$bNorthern Illinois University Press,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $a237 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [215]-225) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction : discoveries and settlements in modern American poetry --$g1.$tMarianne Moore's geography of origins --$g2.$tNation and enunciation in the work of William Carlos Williams --$g3.$tNational forgetting and remembering in the poetry of Robert Frost --$g4.$tEmpire and America in the poetry of Hart Crane --$g5.$tFragmentation and diaspora in the work of Langston Hughes --$tEpilogue: "we the people" in an imperial republic.
520 1 $a"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.
650 0 $aAmerican poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101081
650 0 $aColonies in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85028570
650 0 $aNationalism and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aPostcolonialism in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002010213
650 0 $aImperialism in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004979
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS310.C62$iW47 2004
852 00 $bbar$hPS310.C62$iW47 2004