Castaway
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-2386-0 (ISBN)
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In Castaway Yvette Christiansë presents an epic yet fragmented poetic story set off the coast of Africa on the island of St. Helena: Napoleon Bonaparte’s final place of exile, a port of call for the slave trade, and birthplace of the poet’s grandmother. Amid echoes of racialized identity and issues of displacement, the poems in Castaway speak with a multiplicity of voices—from Ferñao Lopez (the island’s first exile) and Napoleon to that of a contemporary black woman. Castaway is simultaneously a song of discovery, an anthem of conquest, and a tortured lamentation of exiles and slaves.
Instead of offering a linear narrative, Christiansë renders the poems as if they were emerging from the pages of imaginary books, documents now disrupted and scattered. An emperor’s point of view is juxtaposed with the perspectives of various explorers, sailors, and unknown slaves until finally they all open upon the book’s “castaway,” the authorial female voice that negotiates a way to write about love and desire after centuries of oppression and exploitation.
Daring and sophisticated, Castaway challenges and captivates the reader with not only its lyrical richness and conceptual depth but also its implicit and haunting reflections on diaspora and postcolonialism. It will be highly regarded by readers and writers of poetry and will appeal to those engaged with issues of race, gender, exile, multiculturalism, colonialism, and history.
Yvette Christianse was born and raised in South Africa. In her late teens her family moved to Australia to escape aparteid. She now lives in New York where she is an Assistant Professor of English at Fordham University.
The Name of the Island 1
The Island Sings Its Name 5
And All Things Come to Pass 10
On Being Restless 11
Letter to General D'Albuquerque- On the Pleasures of Taste 12
Letter to General D'Albuquerque- On the Pleasures of Touch 14
Letter to General D'Albuquerque- On Desire 16
Letter to General D'Albuquerque- On Solitude 17
Letter to General D'Albuquerque- On Forgiveness 19
For the Devout Mouth 21
For the Rrecord 23
Sleigh Ride 27
The Enemies of Progress 29
Necessary Things 31
The Emperor Considers the Fate of His Book 32
Last Battles 33
A Very Sick Man 34
One More Mile, One More Town 35
Face to Face 36
Brotherhood 38
ANd What of Africa? 39
Another Strange Night 41
For the Arrival of a Serious Enemy 43
Gold 45
Sunday School 47
The Sleeper 48
Blow the WInd Southerly 49
And Bring Him to Me 51
Courtship 52
Fire on Board 53
Man in a Room 55
What the Girl who was a Cabin Boy Hears of Said- Which is not Clear 56
Geography Lesson 57
On Hearing of the Exiled Prophet 59
In the Hull 61
Under the Feet of Angels 62
When All else Fails 63
Felony 64
Contagion 65
The Englightenment Sees Its Face in a Different Light 66
Even when the Smile they Smolder 68
Sometimes the Surface of Water, Sometimes a Mirror- the Horror 69
Nightwatch 70
A Dictionary of Survival 71
Memorial 72
Floating 73
Middle Passage 74
She Feels the Vanishing Sickness Move behind Her Navel 75
The Face of the Deep 76
Eclipse 77
Adrift 78
In the Maw 79
In the Wake 81
An Easter Confession, of Sorts 85
For Strength in the Face of a Powerful Enemy 86
Desire 87
Devilry 88
Aubade 89
For a Lover Who Keeps to Another Hemipshere 90
Sweeter and Dearer 91
Is It Not Sweet? 92
Southerly, Southerly 93
Moon 94
Now That She is a Woman Herself 95
With the Art of Birds 96
She Observes the Blue Bird 97
A Riddle to Save Face 98
The Cabin Girl Sees on All SIdes Evidence of the Dream 99
She Looks up and Points 100
The Beautiful Flood 101
What Is Out there? 102
Some of the Women 103
Behind my Back 104
She Confesses 105
Land Ahead 107
Headwind 108
The Cabin Girl Sings, of Love, Reluctantly and into an Empty Sky 109
And When I Write the Muscles in My Chest Move as if in Flight 110
The Voyage Out 111
St. Helena-- Time Line 113
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.11.1999 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 449 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8223-2386-9 / 0822323869 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-2386-0 / 9780822323860 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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