Poetics and justice in America, Japan, and Taiwan : configuring change and entitlement

Author(s)

• Brink, Dean Anthony

Bibliographic Information

Poetics and justice in America, Japan, and Taiwan : configuring change and entitlement

Dean Anthony Brink

Lexington Books, c2021

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-318) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Poetics and Justice in America, Japan, and Taiwan shows how entitlements are implicated in all areas of life-human and nonhuman-that poetry reaches. Through a creative adaptation of Badiou's philosophical framing, this book argues that poetry matters as a form of media particularly suited to integrating diverse fields of knowledge and attention in newspapers, Tweets, and performance as well as volumes of poetry. Recasting intertextuality as more relational than referential, the author argues for the importance of poetry in realizing how social change and ecological justice are bound up in our orientations of affiliation. Each chapter focuses on particular sets of problems engaged by poets in different contexts to various ends in Japan, the US, and Taiwan. Some chapters explore the subtle implications of openly provocative styles, while others question the muted poetic intimations of injustices that are left standing unchanged in the name of aesthetics. Poets and performance artists featured include Amiri Baraka, John Ashbery, Tawara Machi, Rodrigo Toscano, Hung Hung, and John Cage. The author argues for examining poetic expressions in terms of what discursive fusions and affiliations they embody beyond the intimation of good intentions or ironic passing over.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Poetic Configurations and Intertextuality after Badiou and Angenot Part I: On Ecological Engagement in American Poetry Chapter 1: Romantic and Anthropocentric Agency in Contemporary American Ecopoetry Part II: Social and Ecological Criticism in Contemporary Japanese Poetry Chapter 2: Post-Bubble Satirical Verse in Neoliberal Japan Chapter 3: Nuclear Hegemony and Material Indices: The Verse Boom after Fukushima Chapter 4: Tawara Machi's Classical Pop Poetics of Consumerism and Travel Part III: Settling Scores: Poetry Out of the New York School and Beyond Chapter 5: Racialization, Sound, and Affiliations of Change in Amiri Baraka's Performance Poetry Chapter 6: Sun Ra's Chromatic Affirmations: Subtractive Collaboration and Afrofuturism Chapter 7: Situating Intentionality and Social Critique in the Poetry and Performance of John Cage and Rodrigo Toscano Chapter 8: The Double Edge of Indifference in John Ashbery's Late Work Part IV: Poetry of Emergent Communities Chapter 9: Human Rights and the Arts in Contemporary Taiwan: Hung Hung's Literary and Dramatic Productions Chapter 10: Precarious Spaces and Intertextual Jouissance in Queer Communities in San Francisco and Tokyo: The Poetry of Justin Chin and Ishii Tatsuhiko

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Details

• NCID: BC06841479
• ISBN:
  • 9781793627902
• LCCN: 2021017997
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: engjpnchi
• Place of Publication: Lanham
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 337 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 811.609
  • LCC : PS326
  • DC23 : 811/.609
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : American poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Japanese poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Chinese poetry -- Taiwan -- 21st century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 21st century
  • LCSH : Literature and society -- Japan -- History -- 21st century
  • LCSH : Literature and society -- Taiwan -- History -- 21st century
  • LCSH : Poetry -- Philosophy