"A Different Sense of Power"

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Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 083863897X
ISBN-13 : 9780838638972
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Book Synopsis "A Different Sense of Power" by : Thomas Fink

Download or read book "A Different Sense of Power" written by Thomas Fink and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes the work of a racially, ethnically, and geographically diverse group of recent social poets. These figures -- Thylias Moss, John Yau, Denise Duchamel, Carolyn Forche, Joseph Lease, Gloria Anzaldua, Martin Espada, Melvin Dixon, and Stephen Paul Miller -- utilize a diversity of aesthetic strategies to address a number of central problems, such as poetic speculations about dangers and opportunities of visual representations by dominant and marginalized groups, effacement of specific communities' histories, and attempts at restoration of history.


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