Pub Date : 2023-04-21DOI: 10.1163/24056480-00801009
Gail Holst-Warhaft
Modern Greek poetry has been influenced by a tradition of lament that is still practiced in rural Greece, and by the tragic events of modern Greek history. In contrast to the elegiac tradition, laments and their women practitioners ascribe a positive value to pain. Male poets of the generation of 1930 made use of the imagery of folk lament in their poetry, and women poets of the second half of the 20th century addressed the dead directly as their village counterparts still do. The Asia Minor catastrophe of 1922 dominated 20th-century modern Greek literature and drew on another traditional poetic form, the “lament for lost cities.” More recently, songwriters have mourned the political and economic tragedies of contemporary Greece in lyrics that seem much closer, in their expression of pain, to the tradition of lament than to elegy.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-21DOI: 10.1163/24056480-00801007
Adele Bardazzi
This article investigates two central aspects of contemporary elegy: (1) the plausible and tempting assumption of it being disentangled from formal constraints, something that might have generated a major historical shift from poetry as a poetic form to an elegiac mode of discourse (Bardazzi, Giusti, and Tandello 2022); (2) the formal glitch it creates and, at times, reconciles via the lyric and its generative tension between personal and collective, narrative and non-narrative dimensions, linear and non-linear temporalities. This study does so by focusing on two authors who have weaved together a poetics of mourning the paternal figure: OBIT (2020) by the Asian American poet Victoria Chang and Geologia di una padre [Geology of a father] (2013) by the Italian poet Valerio Magrelli.
本文研究了当代挽歌的两个核心方面:(1)它从形式约束中解脱出来的合理和诱人的假设，可能会产生从诗歌作为诗歌形式到挽歌话语模式的重大历史转变(Bardazzi, Giusti, and andello 2022);(2)它所创造的形式上的小故障，有时通过抒情及其在个人与集体、叙事与非叙事维度、线性与非线性时间性之间的生成张力来调和。这项研究通过关注两位作者来实现这一点，他们将哀悼父亲形象的诗学结合在一起:亚裔美国诗人张维多利亚(Victoria Chang)的《OBIT》(2020)和意大利诗人瓦莱里奥·马格利(Valerio Magrelli)的《父亲的地质学》(2013)。
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Pub Date : 2023-04-21DOI: 10.1163/24056480-00801001
Adele Bardazzi, R. Binetti, J. Culler
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Pub Date : 2023-04-21DOI: 10.1163/24056480-00801004
David Sherman
This essay explores the secular imaginary of contemporary elegy, with a focus on writers in the U.S. Comparing recent poems by Natasha Trethewey, Danez Smith, Sam Sax, primarily, I examine variations in the figure of apostrophe addressed to the dead as imaginative critiques of secular hope. These poets use precarious forms of apostrophe to explore the conceptual impasse of posthumous personhood in a secular social world. Their writing disperses this foreclosed subjectivity across other effects, sites, and practices, as an ethical world-building agency. These lyrical attempts to imagine a secular social ontology of being with the dead articulate powerful possibilities for political justice and passionate attachment.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-21DOI: 10.1163/24056480-00801000
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Pub Date : 2023-04-21DOI: 10.1163/24056480-00801003
J. Ramazani
Is the elegy global? To wrestle with this impossibly large question, can we approach it intrinsically by searching within elegy for traces of the genre’s worldwide reach? A contemporary elegy that can serve as a portal to the genre’s globality is Edward Hirsch’s book-length Gabriel (2014), a lament for the poet’s son that weaves a global web of elegies, citing more than a dozen mourning poets from classical and Edo Japan, medieval, Renaissance, and Romantic Britain, Renaissance Poland, nineteenth-century Germany and France, and twentieth-century Italy, Russia, and India. Though not comprehensive, Hirsch’s gathering makes visible the elegy’s global resonances, divergences, and scope.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-02DOI: 10.1163/24056480-tat00003
Xiaomin Chen
This paper examines how two contemporary Chinese ekphrastic poems respond to an era characterized by visual media and globalization. It analyses how the poets connect their engagement with visual art to their explorations of complex cross-cultural encounters. These inter-art-form and inter-cultural engagements question the self-other dichotomy that operates in many simplistic imaginings of the relationship between art forms, between China and the West, and between so-called cultural centres and peripheries. Building on the example of these two poetic works, I propose a networked framework as an alternative to dichotomised conceptions of world literature and as a way to rethink global cultural politics and contemporary sociohistorical experience.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1163/24056480-00704006
Kun Huang
This essay traces the translation, reception, and adaptation of African anti-colonial poetics that emerged from the Congo Crisis in the People’s Republic of China in the early 1960s. It examines the Cold War mechanisms that coded translated African poetry, the socialist literary network that facilitated and constrained textual circulation, and the Maoist discourse of world revolution underlying Chinese writers’ responses to Patrice Lumumba’s assassination and African decolonization. The article argues that the Cold War served as a powerful geopolitical and discursive structure for keeping specific anti-colonial African authors, texts, tropes, and aesthetics alive and legible across national and ideological borders, while also rendering them susceptible to mistranslations and appropriations. The material, ideological, and affective configurations of the Cold War thus profoundly mediated imaginations and articulations of Sino-African solidarity in Maoist China.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1163/24056480-00704005
G. Molnár
This paper focuses on multilingualism and intercultural communication in Primo Levi’s autobiographical narrative The Truce (1963), in the framework of a non-universalist view of world literature and the concept of “significant geographies.” The interpretation aims to discover how the historical moment of pre-Cold War armistice is related to transnational movements, the experience of displacement, and intercultural or interlinguistic encounters. Reading several key scenes and passages, I claim that the narrator’s strategies convey a participatory anthropological approach to the understanding of foreignness, which is also evidenced by a subtle and multilayered irony. Some of Primo Levi’s other fiction and nonfiction is used to frame this discussion of The Truce.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1163/24056480-00704002
S. Cucu
Has the Cold War, anchored in both the US-USSR rivalry and the rising power of China, impacted the sense and the meaning of literature as art, and our understanding of world literature? If the world literature discourse reveals a cosmopolitan feature to the cultural contestation of great power politics in the Third World and Eastern Europe, does this also mean that the Cold War discloses an irreducible agonism at the heart of world literature? This article suggests we need to answer both questions affirmatively. I approach these questions both historically and heuristically; I begin with a fictional palimpsest, composed by short excerpts from three larger texts by Peter Schneider, Boris Polevoy, and Ismail Kadare. This reading strategy aims to show that both ideological and geopolitical concerns are relevant in theorizing world literature through the lens of Cold War literature.
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