Poetry and Poetics II: Oceania
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Trauma "Beneath a Big Black Wave": Self and History in Elizabeth Bishop's "In the Waiting Room". Julie Cline, University of California, Riverside
This paper situates Bishop’s "In the Waiting Room" in the context of World War I and the poet's queasy transition from Nova Scotia to America. Troubling the facts, it re-historicizes a poem of borderline experience typically read as introspective.
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"Flying Down to Rio": Elizabeth Bishop, Clarice Lispector, and the American Reception of Brazil. Bethany Hicok, Westminster College
Bishop interacted with the culture of Brazil, where she lived at mid-century. She and Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, whom she knew and translated, shared a gendered discourse of abjection and desire that offers interesting opportunities for cross-cultural analysis.
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M’apping the Voyage: Displacement as Composition in Nathaniel Mackey’s Poetics. Paul Jaussen, University of Washington
Mackey’s poetry is preoccupied with the many displacements of the African diaspora, a concern reflected in his neologism "m'ap," which unites "mishap" and "map." Mackey's poetics of m’apping transforms the ocean into a site of both history and creation.
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