In the Language of My Captor
奴隷制、見世物、養子、言語の支配をめぐる声を組み合わせ、捕らわれと自由の関係を問う詩集。歴史上の人物の仮面を通した詩と、著者自身の記憶に近い散文が交差し、アメリカの人種と愛の矛盾を鋭く掘り下げる。
作品情報
支配する言葉の中で語ることは、自由そのものの不確かさを暴き出す。
三つの連作を中心に構成された詩集で、歴史的なペルソナ詩、捕囚の語り、著者自身の家族史に触れる散文が響き合う。ジェファソン・デイヴィスの養子となった混血の少年をめぐる詩などを通じて、人種化された愛、支配、言葉の所有を問い直す。日本語版の単行本は確認できないため、識別子は null とした。
レビュー要約
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歴史的な語りの形式と個人的な記憶が互いを照らし、自由が支配の幻想と結びついてしまう構造を見せている。読者には、詩の形式そのものが倫理的な問いとして迫る作品と受け止められている。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Wesleyan Univ Pr
- 発売日
- 2017-02-07
- ページ数
- 86ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 17.15 x 1.91 x 25.4 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780819577115
- ISBN-10
- 0819577111
- 価格
- 5387 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/American
Finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry Winner of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry (2017) Acclaimed poet Shane McCrae's latest collection is a book about freedom told through stories of captivity. Historical persona poems and a prose memoir at the center of the book address the illusory freedom of both black and white Americans. In the book's three sequences, McCrae explores the role mass entertainment plays in oppression, he confronts the myth that freedom can be based upon the power to dominate others, and, in poems about the mixed-race child adopted by Jefferson Davis in the last year of the Civil War, he interrogates the infrequently examined connections between racism and love. A reader's companion is available at wesleyan.edu/wespress/readerscompanions.
SHANE MCCRAE is the author of four other books of poetry, including The Animal Too Big to Kill, Mule, Forgiveness Forgiveness , and Blood .
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A Poignant Exploration of Captivity and Freedom
In In the Language of My Captor, Shane McCrae weaves historical persona poems with a prose memoir, addressing the illusory freedom of both black and white Americans. His portrayal of Jim Limber, the mixed-race child adopted by Jefferson Davis, delves into the complex intersections of racism and love. This collection's powerful narratives invite readers to reflect deeply on America's past and present struggles with identity and oppression.
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Challenging, but important poetry
I haven’t read a collection of poems by one author in such a long time that I almost forgot how to read poetry. First, I read the poems silently, then I read them out loud, and after that I just opened it up and read the poem I landed on and I’m so glad I took my time because these poems are challenging—in the best way. They need time to be digested, appreciated, and savored because they are complex and deal with themes such as captivity, slavery, racism, and identity. He’s created various characters so it feels like you’re reading poetic narratives or vignettes. Not exactly beach reading (and I did take it to the beach), but I’m so glad I spent time with these poems, and I will of his poems and more poetry in general because now I have poetry back in my life, I realize I’d been missing it.
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Moving and Indomitable
The beauty in this collection, and in all the characters McCrae invokes, is that they help the hopelessly disconnected to relate to experiences they will never have and while they all must bow to survive, the refuse to be crushed or dominated.
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Five Stars
This book is unsettling in the best way.
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