Resisting Imperial Jouissance: The Transideological Line in Recent American Antiwar Poetry

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Title:	Resisting Imperial Jouissance: The Transideological Line in Recent American Antiwar Poetry
Authors:	Brink, Dean
Contributors:	淡江大學英文學系
Keywords:	antiwar literature;contemporary American poetry;American occupation of Iraq;transideological irony;jouissance;9/11;Linda Hutcheon;Slavoj Zižek;imperialism
Date:	2013-01
Issue Date:	2013-04-11
Publisher:	Toronto: University of Toronto Press * Journals Division
Abstract:	This essay critically examines various strategies taken in the most compelling contemporary American antiwar poetry written against the occupation of Iraq. It finds both limitations, as many poets have succumbed to a postmodern distance from events, and brilliance, in poets who have discerned ways of eliciting hope in the aims of such poetry. Linda Hutcheon's term transideological irony is used to show how many poets are complicit, in their irony, with rubrics of the dominant discourse such as "a nation at war." In light of Žižek's Lacanian-Marxist formulation of jouissance, the imperial jouissance manifest in much poetry presented as thematically "antiwar" is examined in terms of both successes and shortcomings.
Relation:	Canadian Review of American Studies 43(1), pp.1-22
DOI:	10.3138/cras.2013.001
Appears in Collections:	[Graduate Institute & Department of English] Journal Article

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