Rummaging Through the Ashes: 9/11 American Poetry and the Transcultural Counterwitness
By drawing on current definitions of testimonial witnessing, this study returns to the attacks of September 11th to explore how two 9/11 poems, “First Writing Since (Poem on Crisis of Terror)” by Suheir Hammad and “Alabanza: In Praise of the Local 100” by Martin Espada, challenge the pervasive patri...
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| Language: | English |
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European Association for American Studies
2020-06-01
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| Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/16018 |