Nations of nothing but poetry modernism transnationalism and synthetic vernacular writing 1st Edition Hart 0190452900 9780190452902

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• ISBN 10: 0190452900
• ISBN 13: 9780190452902
• Author: Hart

Modernism is typically associated with novelty and urbanity. So what happens when poets identify small communities and local languages with the spirit of transnational modernity? Are vernacular poetries inherently provincial or implicitly xenophobic? How did modernist poets use vernacular language to re-imagine the relations between people, their languages, and the communities in which they live?Nations of Nothing But Poetry answers these questions through case studies of British, Caribbean, and American poetries from the 1920s through the 1990s.

Table of contents:

1. Vernacular Discourse from Major to Minor

2. The Impossibility of Synthetic Scots; Or, Hugh MacDiarmid’s Nationalist Internationalism

3. A Dialect Written in the Spelling of the Capital: Basil Bunting Goes Home

4. Tradition and the Postcolonial Talent: T. S. Eliot versus E. K. Brathwaite

5. Transnational Anthems and the Ship of State: Harryette Mullen, Melvin B. Tolson, and the Politics of Afro

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