Title Queering Cold War poetry : ethics of vulnerability in Cuba and the United States / Eric Keenaghan

Published Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 196 pages) Contents Toward a queer ethic of vulnerability -- Intrinsic coupling: Wallace Stevens and the pleasures of correspondence -- A nation's secrets: resistance and reform in José Lezama Lima's poetic system -- Vulnerable households: containment and Robert Duncan's queered nation -- A baroque revolution : Severo Sarduy's queer cosmology Summary "In Queering Cold War Poetry, Eric Keenaghan offers queer theory, queer studies, and literary theory a new political and conceptual language for reevaluating past and present high valuations of individualism and security. He examines four Cold War poets from Cuba and the United States - Wallace Stevens, Jose Lezama Lima, Robert Duncan, and Severo Sarduy. These writers, who lived in an era when homosexuals were regarded as outsiders or even security threats, offer critiques of nationalism and liberalism. Through studies of Cuban and U.S. lyric and poetics, Queering Cold War Poetry clears the way for imagining what it means to belong to a passionate and compassionate citizenry which celebrates vulnerability, searches for difference in itself and each of its constituent individuals, and identifies less with a nation than with a global community."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-182) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955 -- Criticism and interpretation Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988 -- Criticism and interpretation Lezama Lima, José -- Criticism and interpretation Sarduy, Severo -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Sarduy, Severo -- Criticism and interpretation Lezama Lima, Jose -- Criticism and interpretation Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988 -- Criticism and interpretation Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955 -- Criticism and interpretation Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988 fast Lezama Lima, José fast Sarduy, Severo fast Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955 fast Subject Cold War in literature. Nationalism in literature. Liberalism in literature. Gay people's writings -- History and criticism Homosexuality and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century Homosexuality and literature -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. Cold War (1945-1989) in literature Gays' writings Homosexuality and literature Liberalism in literature Nationalism in literature Literatur Homosexualität Identität Das Andere Cuba United States USA Kuba. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2008021610 ISBN 9780814271599 0814271596

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