Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution
Autor David Austinen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 oct 2018
What is the relationship between poetry and social change?
Standing at the forefront of political poetry since the 1970s, Linton Kwesi Johnson has been fighting neo-fascism, police violence and promoting socialism while putting pen to paper to refute W.H. Auden's claim that 'poetry makes nothing happen'. For Johnson, only the second living poet to have been published in the Penguin Modern Classics series, writing has always been 'a political act' and poetry 'a cultural weapon'.
In Dread Poetry and Freedom - the first book dedicated to the work of this 'political poet par excellence' - David Austin explores the themes of poetry, political consciousness and social transformation through the prism of Johnson's work. Drawing from the Bible, reggae and Rastafari, and surrealism, socialism and feminism, and in dialogue with Aime Cesaire and Frantz Fanon, C.L.R. James and Walter Rodney, and W.E.B. Du Bois and the poetry of d'bi young anitafrika, Johnson's work becomes a crucial point of reflection on the meaning of freedom in this masterful and rich study.
In the process, Austin demonstrates why art, and particularly poetry, is a vital part of our efforts to achieve genuine social change in times of dread.
Standing at the forefront of political poetry since the 1970s, Linton Kwesi Johnson has been fighting neo-fascism, police violence and promoting socialism while putting pen to paper to refute W.H. Auden's claim that 'poetry makes nothing happen'. For Johnson, only the second living poet to have been published in the Penguin Modern Classics series, writing has always been 'a political act' and poetry 'a cultural weapon'.
In Dread Poetry and Freedom - the first book dedicated to the work of this 'political poet par excellence' - David Austin explores the themes of poetry, political consciousness and social transformation through the prism of Johnson's work. Drawing from the Bible, reggae and Rastafari, and surrealism, socialism and feminism, and in dialogue with Aime Cesaire and Frantz Fanon, C.L.R. James and Walter Rodney, and W.E.B. Du Bois and the poetry of d'bi young anitafrika, Johnson's work becomes a crucial point of reflection on the meaning of freedom in this masterful and rich study.
In the process, Austin demonstrates why art, and particularly poetry, is a vital part of our efforts to achieve genuine social change in times of dread.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780745338132
ISBN-10: 0745338135
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 133 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: PLUTO PRESS
Colecția Pluto Press
ISBN-10: 0745338135
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 133 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: PLUTO PRESS
Colecția Pluto Press
Notă biografică
David Austin teaches in the Department of Humanities, Philosophy, and Religion at John Abbott College. He is the author, most recently, of Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal and the winner of the 2014 Casa de las Americas Prize.
Cuprins
Acknowledgements
Preface
Prologue
1. The Poet's Routes
2. Dread Dialectics
3. Dread Poetry and Freedom
4. Politics and Mourning in 'Reggae fi Radni'
5. The Wise Old Shepherd
6. The Good Life
7. More Time
8. Searching for the Fantastic
Post-Apartheid Postscript
Notes
Index
Preface
Prologue
1. The Poet's Routes
2. Dread Dialectics
3. Dread Poetry and Freedom
4. Politics and Mourning in 'Reggae fi Radni'
5. The Wise Old Shepherd
6. The Good Life
7. More Time
8. Searching for the Fantastic
Post-Apartheid Postscript
Notes
Index
Recenzii
“A moving and dialogic musing on freedom. Austin's richly textured study reads LKJ's poetry in relation to an expansive tradition of black radical politics and poetics. It captures both the urgency of Johnson's historical moment and his resonance for ours.”
“With the intensity of a devotee and the precision of a scholar, David Austin skillfully traverses the dread terrain of Linton Kwesi Johnson’s politics and poetry, engaging readers in an illuminating dialogue with diverse interlocutors who haunt the writer’s imagination.”