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Longing for the Break: Improvisationality and Forms of Indian Anglophone Poetry
Longing for the Break: Improvisationality and Forms of Indian Anglophone Poetry
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260311091550.5
- ISBN
- 9798270232665
- DDC
- 420
- 서명/저자
- Longing for the Break: Improvisationality and Forms of Indian Anglophone Poetry / Saraswati Nandini Majumdar
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : The University of Texas at Austin, 2025
- 형태사항
- 1 electronic resource (286 pages)
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-06, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisors: Richmond-Garza, Elizabeth; Zecchini, Laetitia Committee members: Bennett, Chad; Reeves, Roger; Ravinthiran, Vidyan.
- 학위논문주기
- - Ph.D. : The University of Texas at Austin, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation theorizes 'improvisationality' as a creative-critical paradigm for making and reading modern and contemporary Indian poetry written in English. Drawing on scholarship on both the Anglo-American lyric and African American poetry and music, this transnational study of South Asian poetry sees in three South Asian poets a distinctive affinity. Like 'the break' in a live jazz performance, 'improvisationality' occurs before an actual improvisation is chosen and performed. It lies 'in between' thought and word. Agha Shahid Ali, Karthika Naïr, and Tishani Doshi provide a range of formal practices that preserve fleeting moments of 'improvisationality.' Their poems also form an archive of reflections on how 'improvisationality' might be understood as both an aesthetic and an ideological paradigm. Using sound and texture, they play with received structures and effects of spontaneity through strategic uses of oral registers and musical resonances. To craft their own improvisational aesthetics, these poets look for, and create breaks within, the already improvisational formal South Asian vernacular traditions of the ghazal, the epics, Bhakti, and Hindustani music. They engage in a bridging of text and performance, which both revoices South Asian expressive genres, making them contemporary, and reimagines the English language in subversive ways that demand attention to colonized voices and bodies. Their poems are plural and relational, thereby undoing essentialist understandings of lineage and identity through their demand that we listen and listen again. Ultimately, by foregrounding form itself over authoritative voice, these poets capture suspended moments of potentiality and spontaneity in between the violence of the past and affirmative, even ecstatic, future voicings.
- 언어주기
- English
- 일반주제명
- Asian literature
- 일반주제명
- Literature
- 일반주제명
- Asian studies
- 키워드
- Indian poetry
- 키워드
- English language
- 기타저자
- The University of Texas at Austin English
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-06A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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