TY - BOOK ID - 78645276 TI - Multicultural poetics PY - 2018 SN - 1438468466 9781438468464 9781438468457 1438468458 9781438468457 PB - Albany DB - UniCat KW - American poetry KW - Multiculturalism in literature. KW - Multiculturalism KW - Other (Philosophy) in literature. KW - Poetry KW - Poetics KW - American literature KW - Poems KW - Verses (Poetry) KW - Literature KW - Cultural diversity policy KW - Cultural pluralism KW - Cultural pluralism policy KW - Ethnic diversity policy KW - Social policy KW - Anti-racism KW - Ethnicity KW - Cultural fusion KW - History and criticism. KW - History. KW - Social aspects KW - Political aspects KW - Minority authors KW - Technique KW - Philosophy KW - Government policy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78645276 AB - Multicultural Poetics provides a new perspective on American poetry that will contribute to the evolution of contemporary critical practice. Nissa Parmar combines formalist analysis with cultural studies theory to trace a lineage of hybrid poetry from the American Renaissance to what Marilyn Chin deemed America's "multicultural renaissance," the blossoming of multicultural literature in the 1980s and 1990s. This re-visionary literary history begins by analyzing Whitman and Dickinson as postcolonial poets. This critical approach provides an alternative to the factionalism that has characterized twentieth-century American poetic history and continues to inform literary criticism in the twenty-first century. Parmar uses a multiethnic, multigender method that emphasizes the relationship between American poetic form and cultural development. This book provides a new approach by using hybridity as the critical paradigm for a study that groups multiethnic and emergent authors. It thereby combats literary ghettoization while revealing commonalities across American literatures and the cross-fertilization that has informed their development. ER -