Summonings
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Indebted to the docupoetics tradition, Raena Shirali's summonings investigates the ongoing practice of witch (" daayan" ) hunting in India. Here, poems interrogate the political implications & shortcomings of writing Subaltern personae while acknowledging the author's Westernized positionality. Continuing to explore multi-national and intersectional concerns around identity raised in her debut collection, Shirali asks how first- & second-generation immigrants reconcile the self with the lineages that shape it, wondering aloud about those lineages' relationships to misogyny & violence. These precarious poems explore how antiquated & existing norms surrounding female mysticism in India & America inform each culture's treatment of women. As Jericho Brown wrote of Shirali's poetics in GILT, her " comment on culture, on identity, on justice is her comment on poetry." summonings is comment on power & patriarchy, on authorial privilege & the shifting role of witness, &, ultimately, on an ethical poetics, grounded in the inevitable failure to embody the Other.
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Summonings
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Book Details
- Publisher:
- Black Lawrence Press
- ISBN:
- 9781625570413
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 124
- Authors:
- Raena Shirali
- Published Date:
- 2022-10-01
- Language:
- English
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