Haunted Memories: Disruptive Ghosts in the Poems of Brenda Marie Osbey and Joy Harjo.
This article examines the disruptive ghosts depicted in the poems of poets Brenda Marie Osbey and Joy Harjo. It discusses Osbey's and Harjo's travels to historic sites along the Gulf Coast in their poems, the use of historical figures in their poems, figures from the colonial past of New Orleans, Lo...
| Publicado en: | Southern Literary Journal Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 108 - 129 |
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University of North Carolina Press
Spring2014
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| Sumario: | This article examines the disruptive ghosts depicted in the poems of poets Brenda Marie Osbey and Joy Harjo. It discusses Osbey's and Harjo's travels to historic sites along the Gulf Coast in their poems, the use of historical figures in their poems, figures from the colonial past of New Orleans, Louisiana in Harjo's poem "New Orleans," the increase in ghostly appearances in fiction, film and critical studies, Osbey's poetry collection "All Saints," and the similarity between the two poets in terms of the use of ghosts in their poems. |
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