Reading race : white American poets and the racial discourse in the twentieth century
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Reading race : white American poets and the racial discourse in the twentieth century
（South Atlantic Modern Language Association award study）
University of Georgia Press, c1988
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注記
Bibliography: p. [165]-173
Includes index
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内容説明
This book examines the work of 20th century white American poets from Carl Sandburg to Adrienne Rich, from Ezra Pound to Allen Ginsberg, revealing within their poetry and casual writings a body of literature that transmits racism, even as it sometimes speaks against it. Tracing the persistence of racial discourse, Aldon Nielsen argues that white Americans, throughout their history, have used a language that treats blacks as an abstract other - an aggregate nonwhite - to be acted upon and determined by whites. White discourse drapes over blacks an intricate veil of images and understandings - assertions of inferiority; metaphors of exoticism; similes of animals; tropes of fertility, nothingness, and death - through which whites read race and beneath which blacks remain imprisoned. Speaking of the discourse of race in America, Nielsen identifies ""dead methphors"" - words, images, ideas - tha toperate in much the same way as the ""charged detail"" of Pound or the ""objective correlative"" of T.S.Elliot. Embedded in the language they are instantly recognizable to the native speaker. Poets, when they draw upon these metaphors, demand racist thinking in order to be understood.
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