Trauma, Affect, Memory and 21st-Century Poetry
Trauma, Affect, Memory and 21st-Century Poetry
Cristina A. Bejan in Conversation with Arleen Ionescu
Author(s): Cristina A. Bejan, Arleen IonescuSubject(s): Cultural history, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Theory of Literature, American Literature
Published by: Universitatea Petrol-Gaze din Ploieşti
Keywords: 21st-century poetics; spoken word poetry; intellectuals in the 1930s; trauma; exile; memory; Romanian diaspora in the USA;
Summary/Abstract: This interview with contemporary poet and historian Cristina A. Bejan, conducted over email, examines several contemporary meanings of 21st-century poetry through a personal lens. The interview starts from Bejan’s academic work and continues with her creative work, focusing on her ‘spoken word’ in the volume Green Horses on the Wall, published in 2020 and translated in Romanian this year. Notions such as memory, trauma, affect that represent the core of Bejan’s poetry are explained by the poet in relation to her poetics.
Journal: Word and Text, A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics
- Issue Year: XII/2022
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 151-160
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English