Name: Another Throat: Twenty-First-Century Black Us Persona Poetry and the Archive
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Author: Sharp, Ryan
ISBN: 9781469680637

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Another Throat: Twenty-First-Century Black Us Persona Poetry and the Archive

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Physical Book

Author

Ryan Sharp

Publisher

University of North Carolina Press

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781469680637

Synopsis "Another Throat: Twenty-First-Century Black Us Persona Poetry and the Archive"

The early twenty-first century has seen a sharp rise in Black US poets employing the mask of persona, often including and interrogating archival materials as they do so. While some have observed this rise and noted its connection to historical figures, Ryan Sharp explores it more deeply, as a project-based historical and poetic practice. Sharp examines its sustained use of historical persona and capacity for conjuring Black speakers as a countermeasure against the archival silencing and misrepresentation of Black voices and histories--a tactic he theorizes as poetic fabulation--through the poetry of Elizabeth Alexander, Cornelius Eady, Adrian Matejka, Patricia Smith, Natasha Trethewey, and Frank X Walker. This poetic practice is not only about looking back but about critically and creatively (re)imagining the past to expand the possibilities for Black presents and futures. Through his argument, Sharp demonstrates how the unique aesthetic and rhetorical license afforded to poetry, along with the interiority of persona, empowers such historically minded projects to be concurrently invested in the curation of Black narratives and identities.

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