Geopoetics and More: Canadianism in Canadian Poetry
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https://doi.org/10.32674/z9vc0412Keywords:
Geopeoetics, Canadian poetry, Kenneth White, historical trajectories and Canadianist discourseAbstract
The term ‘Geopoetics’, though travelled miles away from Kenneth White's original underpinnings, is still a useful tool to study how the geography, more narrowly, the topography of a country, with humans at its centre, shapes the poetry of a nation. But geopoetics alone, without corresponding historical and socio-political catalysts, cannot contain all the trajectories poetry is supposed to have. Canadian poetry exhibits a rare contextualization of geopoetics in modern times.This article interrogates geopoetics through the lens of emerging Canadianist discourse within the framework of Canadian poetry, and examines its thematic concerns alongside its historical trajectories. It ultimately posits that the intersection of land and language is constitutive of the essence of Canadian poetry.
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