Poetry in a Global Age by Jahan Ramazani

• Mathias Iroro Orhero ^[1] (res.)
  1. [1] McGill University

     McGill University

     Canadá

     
• Localización: Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, ISSN 0004-1327, ISSN-e 1920-1222, Vol. 54, Nº. 1, 2023, págs. 159-163
• Idioma: inglés

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  • Poetry in a Global Age

    Jahan Ramazani

    Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2020

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  • Ramazani makes the case for a dual understanding of poetry's place in the world: on the one hand, he argues that poems "belong to their immediate historical moment" (3); on the other hand, he acknowledges the "transnational skeins" of poetry (3). If we begin to read poems less as documentary representations of place and instead focus on how global currents influence poetic forms, we might begin to appreciate the multiple spatio-temporalities that make up any given place, but the question of what place exactly is remains, especially if we think of how it manifests in the local, regional, national, and the transnational. Despite their local rootedness, they connect with other places within a "global network of interrelations" (99). Against Franco Moretti and other theorists' "foreign form and local content" model, Ramazani offers structural alternatives (such as foreign form and foreign content, local form and foreign content, and even local form and local content) that indicate the possibility and imperative to expand beyond accepted binaries and imagine the circulation of form and content as something that can occur in multiple ways.