Title: The Letters
Description: "In Queering Cold War Poetry, Eric Keenaghan offers queer theory, queer studies, and literary theory a new political and conceptual language for reevaluating past and present high valuations of individualism and security. He examines four Cold War poets from Cuba and the United States - Wallace Stevens, Jose Lezama Lima, Robert Duncan, and Severo Sarduy. These writers, who lived in an era when homosexuals were regarded as outsiders or even security threats, offer critiques of nationalism and liberalism. Through studies of Cuban and U.S. lyric and poetics, Queering Cold War Poetry clears the way for imagining what it means to belong to a passionate and compassionate citizenry which celebrates vulnerability, searches for difference in itself and each of its constituent individuals, and identifies less with a nation than with a global community."--Jacket.
Subjects: Nationalism in literature, Liberalism in literature, History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, Homosexuality and literature, Gays' writings, Cold War in literature, History, Stevens, wallace, 1879-1955, Duncan, robert edward, 1918-1988, War in literature, Cold war, Gays' writings, history and criticism