{"product_id":"9781438468464","title":"Multicultural Poetics: Re-visioning the American Canon","description":"\u003ci\u003eArgues that multiculturalism and hybridity are key components of the nation’s poetry and its culture.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMulticultural Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e provides a new perspective on American poetry that will contribute to the evolution of contemporary critical practice. Nissa Parmar combines formalist analysis with cultural studies theory to trace a lineage of hybrid poetry from the American Renaissance to what Marilyn Chin deemed America’s “multicultural renaissance,” the blossoming of multicultural literature in the 1980s and 1990s. This re-visionary literary history begins by analyzing Whitman and Dickinson as postcolonial poets. This critical approach provides an alternative to the factionalism that has characterized twentieth-century American poetic history and continues to inform literary criticism in the twenty-first century. Parmar uses a multiethnic, multigender method that emphasizes the relationship between American poetic form and cultural development. This book provides a new approach by using hybridity as the critical paradigm for a study that groups multiethnic and emergent authors. It thereby combats literary ghettoization while revealing commonalities across American literatures and the cross-fertilization that has informed their development.","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165195288816,"sku":"9781438468464","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781438468464_p0.jpg?v=1763755248","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781438468464","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}