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This volume navigates the entangled expressions of mourning across languages, cultures, and traditions, shedding light
on the evolving shapes and discourses of contemporary elegy in world literature. By adopting a transnational approach, this collection offers a much needed conceptualization of what elegy has become today.
Contributors are Nick Admussen, Adele Bardazzi, Roberto Binetti, Emily Drumsta, Francesco Giusti, Roberto Gaudioso, Gail Holst-Warhaft, Karen Leeder, Brandon Menke, Jahan Ramazani, Rachel Elizabeth Robinson, David Sherman and Ivanna Sang Een Yi.
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Contemporary Entangled Elegy
Adele Bardazzi, Roberto Binetti, and Jonathan Culler
Part1 Resistance
1 The Elegiac Transnational
Chinese Poetry, Sutured Absence, World Literature
Nick Admussen
2 Impossible Elegies
Resisting the Paternal
Adele Bardazzi
3 Mourning Nature: The Elegiac Mode and the Not Yet Lost
Re-reading Juliana Spahr's "Gentle Now, Don't Add to Heartache"
Francesco Giusti
4 Elegiac Subjunctive, or Secular Variations on Posthumous Personhood
David Sherman
Part2 Revision
5 Shamanic Chant and Contemporary Korean Elegy
Kim Hyesoon's "Autobiography of Death"
Ivanna Sang Een Yi
6 Self-Elegy and the Making of Lyric Communities
Roberto Binetti
7 Durs Grünbein's Elegy for Dresden
Karen Leeder
8 Rec(h)ording Elegy
Transformative Mourning in the Poetry of Cecilia Vicuña
Rachel Elizabeth Robinson
Part3 Re-mapping
9 The Poetics of Pain
Lament and Elegy in Modern Greek Literature
Gail Holst-Warhaft
10 Mourning Women
Two Modern Takes on Arabic Elegy
Emily Drumsta
11 Death as a Natural Presence and as a Monster
The Elegy in African Textual Traditions with a Focus on Swahili Verbal Art
Roberto Gaudioso
12 Resisting Annihilation
The AIDS Anthology Poem and Collective Melancholia
Brandon Menke
13 A Global Web of Elegies
Jahan Ramazani
Index
