Poetic Language and the Potential for Geopolitical Resistance in Moez Surani's Operations.
This article argues that Moez Surani's list poem Operations, a compilation of military operations carried out by United Nations (UN) member states from 1945 to 2006, represents not only the violence of the world system as inscribed in military language but also the arbitrariness of a bureaucracy bas...
| Publicado en: | University of Toronto Quarterly Vol. 95; no. 2; pp. 111 - 128 |
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