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Visibility In The Redacted Space: What Censored Poetry Reveals About Guantanamo Bay Prison And The Individuals Trapped Inside, Chase Portaro
Visibility In The Redacted Space: What Censored Poetry Reveals About Guantanamo Bay Prison And The Individuals Trapped Inside, Chase Portaro
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This paper discusses what readers can understand about Guantanamo Bay and the larger setting of America's Islamophobic "War on Terror" through the poetry of individuals detained inside of Guantanamo Bay Military Prison. In 2002, Mark Falkoff, with the help of a team of lawyers, translators, and human rights advocates published a collection of twenty-two detainee-authored poems, titled Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak. This paper discusses the emerging neo-colonial subjectivity of America's War on Terror, as it analyzes the available writings of Guantanamo poets. The new language of subjectivity of victims of contemporary American empire is defined by suppression, as …
Double Consciousness, Modernism, And Womanist Themes In Gwendolyn Brooks's "The Anniad", A Yęmisi Jimoh, Phd
Double Consciousness, Modernism, And Womanist Themes In Gwendolyn Brooks's "The Anniad", A Yęmisi Jimoh, Phd
A Yęmisi Jimoh
Article on "The Anniad," a poem byGwendolyn Brooks