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Between the Lines

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Between the Lines examines the role of women poets of African descent in shaping the history of the Americas. Focusing on three women whose poetry wrestled with the sociopolitical predicaments of the late nineteenth century, Between the Lines ventures a broader definition of African American literature by placing it in a hemispheric context. These poets wrote about slavery and its impact on conceptions of free people and free nations; about an existential struggle against boundaries informed by race, nation, and gender; about the power of words to correct, compose, and constitute identities. For these writers, the poem was a dynamic space where the history of slavery met a need for new concepts of individual and collective freedoms. In their work we encounter the poem as a site of cross-cultural exchange, a literary space in which the boundaries of nation can be re-imagined. Between the Lines situates national poetics in a global economy of identities, histories and languages. It looks to poetry to more fully demonstrate how we use language to conceptualize history, how we daily translate from one cultural or linguistic arena to another, how we constantly write identity into existence through a poetic use of language. Sometimes language fails. Inevitably it traps us in the very boundaries that we try to escape. Between the Lines traces this cycle as it informs the poetry of the Americas as it draws and erases national and transnational lines.

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ISBN: 9780199743063
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Author: MoniqueAdelle Lecturer in Comparative Literature, Lecturer in Comparative Literature, Harvard University Callahan
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 208 pages
Series: Imagining the Americas
Genres: Literary studies: poetry and poets
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Gender studies: women and girls
Ethnic studies