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Summoning Our Saints

The Poetry and Prose of Brenda Marie Osbey

Av John Wharton Lowe

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Summoning Our Saints: The Poetry and Prose of Brenda Marie Osbey celebrates and illuminates the poetry and prose of one of the South’s and the nation’s most notable writers. A native of New Orleans and a former poet laureate of Louisiana who served magnificently in that function during the dark days after Hurricane Katrina, Osbey has summoned up a magical, beguiling, sometimes chilling and appalling portrait of the myriad chapters of New Orleans, Southern, and hemispheric history. Her dazzling narratives offer apertures into desire, death and remembrance, often through the voices of neglected and abused citizens. The essays in this collection examine Osbey’s essays and poetry collections, situating them within greater traditions of African American women’s writing, blues music, and West African religious traditions and Catholicism. The chapters are punctuated throughout with Osbey’s own reflections on her work and bring a long-needed and appreciative critical focus to a great artist, elucidating her contributions to our common cultural heritage. The book examines Osbey’s meditations on topics such as colonization, the African diaspora, the circumCaribbean, and contemporary parallels between Europe and the United States to showcase the ways in which they add valuable new insights to transnational studies.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-09-17
  • Mått: 160 x 230 x 22 mm
  • Vikt: 481 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 210
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • ISBN: 9781498581592
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John Wharton Lowe is Barbara Methvin distinguished professor of English and Latin American and Caribbean studies at the University of Georgia.

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Including a detailed chronology of its subject, this collection of essays on poet Brenda Marie Osbey (Africana studies, Brown) will be invaluable to those interested in poetry and African American studies. The collection comprises 11 critical essays. Lowe provides a detailed biographical and critical introduction, and his opening essay on Osbey's poetry collections Ceremony for Minneconjoux and In These Houses sets a high standard, one his fellow contributors meet. Thadious Davis examines History and Other Poems with authority, looking at Osbey's writing in Southern and African American traditions. Dolores Flores-Silva and Keith Cartwright, who previously worked together on a study of Jesmyn Ward, place Osbey in the internationality of the Gulf of Mexico with attention to All Saints and All Souls. Daniel Cross Turner considers Osbey in conjunction with fellow poets Natasha Trethewey and Yusef Komunyakaa. In mapping and examining Osbey's poetry and prose, all the contributors recognize the centrality of Osbey's native New Orleans in her writing, with the city's pasts intersecting with the present and its extensive intercultural borders extending beyond the continental US.Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.

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