Poetry in a Global Age

In his book "Poetry in a Global Age," Jahan Ramazani argues that poetry has much to contribute to understanding literature in an extra-national frame, and that it can energize the transnational turn in the humanities. He offers brilliant readings of postcolonial poets and canonical modernists, showing that even when poetry seems locally rooted, its long memory of forms and words makes it a powerful imaginative resource for a global age.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 304 pages
\n Publication date: 29 October 2020
\n Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
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Ideas, culture, and capital flow across national borders with unprecedented speed, yet we tend not to think of poems as taking part in globalization. Jahan Ramazani shows that poetry has much to contribute to understanding literature in an extra-national frame. Indeed, the globality of poetry, he argues, stands to energize the transnational turn in the humanities. Poetry in a Global Age builds on Ramazani's award-winning A Transnational Poetics, a book that had a catalytic effect on literary studies. Ramazani broadens his lens to discuss modern and contemporary poems not only in relation to world literature, war, and questions of orientalism but also in light of current debates over ecocriticism, translation studies, tourism, and cultural geography. He offers brilliant readings of postcolonial poets like Agha Shahid Ali, Lorna Goodison, and Daljit Nagra, as well as canonical modernists such as W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, and Marianne Moore. Ramazani shows that even when poetry seems locally rooted, its long memory of forms and words, its connections across centuries, continents, and languages, make it a powerful imaginative resource for a global age. This book makes a strong case for poetry in the future development of world literature and global studies.

\n Weight: 480g\n
Dimension: 152 x 229 x 26 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780226730141\n \n