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- A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Fordham University Press
- Series: Verbal Arts
summary
Why is our world still understood through binary oppositions-East and West, local and global, common and strange-that ought to have crumbled with the Berlin Wall? What might literary responses to the events that ushered in our era of globalization tell us about the rhetorical and historical underpinnings of these dichotomies? In A Common Strangeness, Jacob Edmond exemplifies a new, multilingual and multilateral approach to literary and cultural studies. He begins with the entrance of China into multinational capitalism and the appearance of the Parisian flaneur in the writings of a Chinese poet exiled in Auckland, New Zealand. Moving among poetic examples in Russian, Chinese, and English, he then traces a series of encounters shaped by economic and geopolitical events from the Cultural Revolution, perestroika, and the June 4 massacre to the collapse of the Soviet Union, September 11, and the invasion of Iraq. In these encounters, Edmond tracks a shared concern with strangeness through which poets contested old binary oppositions as they reemerged in new, post-Cold War forms.
Table of Contents
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- Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgements
- pp. xi-xv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-14
- 4. Bei Dao and World Literature
- pp. 95-124
- 6. Charles Bernstein and Broken English
- pp. 164-192
- Conclusion
- pp. 193-198
- Works Cited
- pp. 235-264
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823246267
Related ISBN(s)
9780823242597
MARC Record
OCLC
830023759
Pages
256
Launched on MUSE
2012-08-07
Language
English
Open Access
No