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A01=Ryan Sharp
Adrian Matejka
African American literature
African American poetry
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archive
Author_Ryan Sharp
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Black American poetry
Black poetry
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contemporary American literature
contemporary American poetry
contemporary literature
contemporary poetry
COP=United States
Cornelius Eady
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documentary poetry
Elizabeth Alexander
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Frank X Walker
historical poetry
Language_English
Natasha Trethewey
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Patricia Smith
persona poetry
Poetry
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twenty-first century poetry
Product details
- ISBN 9781469680620
- Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 31 Oct 2024
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The early twenty-first century has seen a sharp rise in Black US poets employing the mask of persona, often including and interrogating archival materials as they do so. While some have observed this rise and noted its connection to historical figures, Ryan Sharp explores it more deeply, as a project-based historical and poetic practice. Sharp examines its sustained use of historical persona and capacity for conjuring Black speakers as a countermeasure against the archival silencing and misrepresentation of Black voices and histories—a tactic he theorizes as poetic fabulation—through the poetry of Elizabeth Alexander, Cornelius Eady, Adrian Matejka, Patricia Smith, Natasha Trethewey, and Frank X Walker. This poetic practice is not only about looking back but about critically and creatively (re)imagining the past to expand the possibilities for Black presents and futures.
Through his argument, Sharp demonstrates how the unique aesthetic and rhetorical license afforded to poetry, along with the interiority of persona, empowers such historically minded projects to be concurrently invested in the curation of Black narratives and identities.
Through his argument, Sharp demonstrates how the unique aesthetic and rhetorical license afforded to poetry, along with the interiority of persona, empowers such historically minded projects to be concurrently invested in the curation of Black narratives and identities.
Ryan Sharp is assistant professor of English at Baylor University.
