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Violence and Voice in Wopko Jensma’s Poetry by Kowalska, Eva is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Violence and Voice in Wopko Jensma’s Poetry about?
The imagery of violence, specifically to the face and head, is a recurring motif in Wopko Jensma's poetry. In this article I present a discussion of the poems in which he makes extensive use of such brutal imagery. I describe the development of his use of violence, from its figuration of an ambivalent political symbol to its signification of subjective fragmentation or loss. In doing so I focus on the function of grammatical voice, with its inherent demarcation of agency and subjectivity, as well as its relationship to the less specific meanings of voice in a literary context, in the poems. I argue for a structural connection between textual violence, the power dynamics coded into a text regarding grammatical voice, and its manifestation in the form of a poem's assumed or implied speaker.
Who reads Violence and Voice in Wopko Jensma’s Poetry?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Social Sciences.
- Author
- Kowalska, Eva
- Publisher
- Informa UK (Taylor & Francis); Taylor and Francis Ltd.; Informa UK Limited (ISSN 1812-5441)
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences