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Maeera Y. Shreiber - Singing in a Strange Land - 9780804734295 - V9780804734295
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Singing in a Strange Land

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Description for Singing in a Strange Land Hardback. Including a historical inquiry into the status of Jewish poetry as a marginalized kind of writing, this work helps us think about the ways in which displacement, exile, mourning, gender, and prayer contribute to the shaping of the Jewish American imagination and its poetic production. Series: Verbal Art: Studies in Poetics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 540.

This book begins with a silence. While Jewish American fiction has long been recognized as a fit subject for critical inquiry, Jewish American poetry has largely been overlooked. Recently, a few books have started to redress this silence, focusing on some specific Jewish American poets. However, even as these studies begin to identify specific individuals as "Jewish American poets," the field must be theorized so that we might understand this fascinating occlusion. Poetic forms need to be identified; and the material difference of Jewish cultural practice must be taken into account. Taking a broad view of the subject, Singing in ... Read more asks: How does being Jewish-in-America affect poetic production? And how does poetry help shape Jewish American identity? Beginning with a historical inquiry into the status of Jewish poetry as a marginalized kind of writing, and moving on to detailed analyses of poets including Allen Ginsberg, Adrienne Rich, Louis Zukofsky, Louise Glück, George Oppen, and Allen Grossman, Singing in a Strange Land helps us think about the ways in which displacement, exile, mourning, gender, and prayer contribute to the shaping of the Jewish American imagination and its poetic production.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Verbal Art: Studies in Poetics
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804734295
SKU
V9780804734295
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About Maeera Y. Shreiber
Maeera Y. Shreiber is Associate Professor of English at the University of Utah, specializing in modern and contemporary American poetry. She is also the coeditor of two essay collections on poetry, Dwelling in Possibility: Women Poets and Critics on Poetry (1997) and Mina Loy: Poet and Woman (1997). Currently, she is working on a study of the relationships between poetry ... Read more

Reviews for Singing in a Strange Land
"Shreiber shows us that several key topic of Jewish-American poetry exist side by side (and explains why they do so) . . . This has hardly ever been so succinctly demonstrated before and makes Shreiber's book worth reading."
Marion Spies
Religion and the Arts
"Shreiber understands the often-problematic relationship between narrative and poetry, between the historic literary ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Singing in a Strange Land


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