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A Poetics of Global Solidarity

Part of the Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137568311

ISBN: 978-1-137-56830-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Dec 17, 2015

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Introduction

Spahr, Clemens

Pages: 1 –19

[On his 2008 album The 3rd World (2008), rap lyricist Immortal Technique creates a poetics of solidarity that responds to the conditions of global capitalism. The album’s lyrics are inspired by the rhetoric of Third World liberation movements. “That’s What It Is” is full of a seemingly...
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“Blazing Signals of a World in Birth”: Lyrical Expression and International Solidarity from the Literary Left to the Popular Front

Spahr, Clemens

Pages: 21 –51

[John Dos Passos’s monumental U.S.A. trilogy illustrates how poetry and song lyrics figured prominently in the labor activism of the 1910s. In the course of the three novels, “Solidarity Forever”—a song written by Ralph Chaplin (1887–1961) in 1915 as a union anthem for the Industrial Workers of...
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Global Harlem: The Internationalism of the Harlem Renaissance

Spahr, Clemens

Pages: 53 –83

[Claude McKay’s much maligned but infinitely complex novel Home to Harlem (1928) concisely stages the intersection of race and class that shaped the Harlem Renaissance.1 The novel questions essentialist ideas of culture and examines how socioeconomic structures determine the protagonists’ subject...
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Remapping America: The Epic Geography of Post-World War II American Poetry

Spahr, Clemens

Pages: 85 –115

[In post-World War II America, with international socialism in ruins and the conservative tradition virtually nonexistent, the liberal consensus emerged as the dominant ideology. Its optimism about America’s future was a result of the victory over fascism and the nation’s economic prosperity....
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From Cuba to Vietnam: Anti-Imperialist Poetics and Global Solidarity in the Long Sixties

Spahr, Clemens

Pages: 117 –145

[The political poets treated in the previous chapter were able to tackle the Cold War liberal consensus only indirectly, mostly with little visibility outside literary institutions. Their counterparts of the 1960s had come of age precisely in this era of consensus only to be thrust into a world...
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Contemporary American Poetry and the Legacy of the Third World

Spahr, Clemens

Pages: 147 –173

[The poets and lyricists discussed in this chapter reconsider the legacy of the Third World liberation movements of the 1960s and the 1970s as part of a comprehensive poetics of global solidarity. The poetry of Amiri Baraka (1934–2014) and Luis Rodriguez (b.1954), as well as the rap lyrics of...
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Contemporary American Poetry, Literary Tradition, and the Multitude

Spahr, Clemens

Pages: 175 –207

[It is almost impossible to establish coherent narratives when confronted with the infinitely diverse field of contemporary American poetry. One influential attempt to categorize this field has been to divide contemporary poetry into two schools. Hank Lazer argues that American poetry today falls...
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Conclusion

Spahr, Clemens

Pages: 209 –214

[As I stated in the introduction to this book, in “North American Time” (1983), Adrienne Rich diagnosed an increasing disappearance of poetry from the public realm. But in the same poem, she also insists that “Poetry never stood a chance/ of standing outside history” (Later Poems 132). For Rich,...

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