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Bodily Significations in an Agricultural World: The Multiple Meanings of Materiality in Lorine Niedecker’s New Goose Poems
Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2016-01-01 , DOI: 10.1353/mml.2016.0020
Kathryn Cai

This paper argues that Lorine Niedecker’s New Goose poems evoke the material particularity of individual human, crop, and livestock bodies in the agricultural world they inhabit. This materiality is both irreducible to itself and gestures to networks of structural economic forces, histories of US settler colonialism, and the forms of other bodies. Critics have articulated Niedecker’s complication of an Objectivist focus on materiality with regard to her own psychic and bodily experience. This paper argues that Niedecker similarly complicates the materiality of the bodies that make up her poems to construct a bodily intersubjectivity between humans and nonhumans. The networks that these bodies illuminate reveal human and nonhuman entanglements in transforming the landscape and in human sociality, even while these individual bodies always resolve again into their own particular forms. In doing so, Niedecker constructs an expansive intersubjectivity between humans and nonhumans as a demand for attention to the irreducible particularity of individual bodies alongside the networks within which they are located.

中文翻译:

农业世界中的身体意义:洛琳·尼德克尔新鹅诗中物质的多重意义

本文认为,洛琳·尼德克 (Lorine Niedecker) 的《新鹅》(New Goose) 诗歌唤起了他们居住的农业世界中人类、作物和牲畜个体的物质特殊性。这种物质性本身是不可还原的,也是结构性经济力量网络、美国定居者殖民主义的历史和其他机构形式的一种姿态。评论家已经阐明了 Niedecker 的复杂性,即客观主义者关注物质性与她自己的心理和身体体验相关的复杂性。本文认为,尼德克尔同样使构成她诗歌的身体的物质性复杂化,以在人类和非人类之间构建身体的主体间性。这些身体照亮的网络揭示了人类和非人类在改变景观和人类社会中的纠缠,即使这些个体的身体总是再次分解成它们自己的特定形式。在这样做的过程中,Niedecker 在人类和非人类之间构建了一种广泛的主体间性,作为对个体身体不可简化的特殊性以及它们所在网络的关注的需求。
更新日期:2016-01-01
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