Elegy for a Dying Race
Author : Peter Hulme
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 19,27 MB
Release : 1990
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Author : Peter Hulme
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 19,27 MB
Release : 1990
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Author : Bell Hooks
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 42,75 MB
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813136695
A collection of poems centered around life in Appalachia addresses topics ranging from the marginalization of the region's people to the environmental degradation it has endured throughout history.
Author : Anthony Harkins
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,32 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Appalachian Region
ISBN : 9781946684790
In Hillbilly elegy, J.D. Vance described how his family moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan while navigating the collective demons of the past. The book has come to define Appalachia for much of the nation. This collection of essays is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond Vance's book to allow Appalachians to tell their own diverse and complex stories of a place that is at once culturally rich and economically distressed, unique and typically American. -- adapted from back cover
Author : Mary Jo Bang
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,42 MB
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
A collection of poems written by Mary Jo Bang in the year following the death of her son.
Author : Thomas Gray
Publisher :
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 24,65 MB
Release : 1888
Category : American poetry
ISBN :
Author : Maya C. Popa
Publisher : Smith/Doorstop Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Poetry, Modern
ISBN : 9781914914089
Author : Tiffany Austin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 31,3 MB
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000737160
Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era is an edited collection of critical essays and poetry that investigates contemporary elegy within the black diaspora. Scores of contemporary writers have turned to elegiac poetry and prose in order to militate against the white supremacist logic that has led to recent deaths of unarmed black men, women, and children. This volume combines scholarly and creative understandings of the elegy in order to discern how mourning feeds our political awareness in this dystopian time as writers attempt to see, hear, and say something in relation to the bodies of the dead as well as to living readers. Moreover, this book provides a model for how to productively interweave theoretical and deeply personal accounts to encourage discussions about art and activism that transgress disciplinary boundaries, as well as lines of race, gender, class, and nation.
Author : Diana Fuss
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 43,12 MB
Release : 2013-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822397501
In Dying Modern, one of our foremost literary critics inspires new ways to read, write, and talk about poetry. Diana Fuss does so by identifying three distinct but largely unrecognized voices within the well-studied genre of the elegy: the dying voice, the reviving voice, and the surviving voice. Through her deft readings of modern poetry, Fuss unveils the dramatic within the elegiac: the dying diva who relishes a great deathbed scene, the speaking corpse who fancies a good haunting, and the departing lover who delights in a dramatic exit. Focusing primarily on American and British poetry written during the past two centuries, Fuss maintains that poetry can still offer genuine ethical compensation, even for the deep wounds and shocking banalities of modern death. As dying, loss, and grief become ever more thoroughly obscured from public view, the dead start chattering away in verse. Through bold, original interpretations of little-known works, as well as canonical poems by writers such as Emily Dickinson, Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, Richard Wright, and Sylvia Plath, Fuss explores modern poetry's fascination with pre- and postmortem speech, pondering the literary desire to make death speak in the face of its cultural silencing.
Author : Bernhard Gissibl,
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 19,95 MB
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0857455257
Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon.
Author : J. D. Vance
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 39,89 MB
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0062300563
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that this is only the short, superficial version. Vance’s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother, struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, and were never able to fully escape the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. Vance piercingly shows how he himself still carries around the demons of their chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.