New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and WalcottUniversity of Georgia Press, 25 янв. 2010 г. - Всего страниц: 442 A simultaneously ecocritical and comparative study, New World Poetics plumbs the earthly depth and social breadth of the poetry of Walt Whitman, Pablo Neruda, and Derek Walcott, three of the Americas' most ambitious and epic-minded poets. In Whitman's call for a poetry of New World possibility, Neruda's invocation of an "American love," and Walcott's investment in the poetic ironies of an American epic, the adamic imagination of their poetry does not reinvent the mythical Garden that stands before history's beginnings but instead taps the foundational powers of language before a natural world deeply imbued with the traces of human time. Theirs is a postlapsarian Adam seeking a renewed sense of place in a biocentric and cross-cultural New World through language and nature's capacity for regeneration in the wake of human violence and suffering. The book introduces the environmental history of the Americas and its relationship to the foundation of American and Latin American studies, explores its relevance to each poet's ambition to recuperate the New World's lost histories, and provides a transnational poetics of understanding literary influence and textual simultaneity in the Americas. The study provides much needed in-depth ecocritical readings of the major poems of the three poets, insisting on the need for thoughtful regard for the challenge to human imagination and culture posed by nature's regenerative powers; nuanced appreciation for the difficulty of balancing the demands of social justice within the context of deep time; and the symptomatic dangers as well as healing potential of human self-consciousness in light of global environmental degradation. |
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... violent erasure of countermemory. In their attempts to pursue the traces of the New World's shared history of trauma, violence, and injustice, however, they discover that nature appears to have conspired against them by rendering the ...
... violence of conquest and colonialism. From his recognition of the eroding effects of natural water cycles in “Alturas de Machu Picchu” [Heights of Machu Picchu] to the sea's forceful cannibaliza- tion of human traces in “El gran océano ...
... violent transplantation of its peoples , plants , and animals and the intensive expansion of European settlement . The capacity to imagine deep time was hard to come by for early settlers whose historical memory was a mere few thousand ...
... violence on both the peoples and the land itself . European colonialism wiped the American slate clean , or at least pretended to do so , so as to plow its own story anew - to affirm its Adamic innocence in the face of New World ...
... surely as significant a historical fact as any military struggle or colonial violence . Widespread biotic colonialisms throughout the Americas inspired historian Alfred Crosby to call the Old World pioneer “a 22 | Chapter One.
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