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Lieferstatus:	Auf Bestellung (Lieferzeit unbekannt)
Veröffentlichung:	November 2023
Genre:	Sprache
	c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period) / First World War / First World War, 1914-1918 / HISTORY / Military / World War I / POETRY / American / General / POETRY / Caribbean & Latin American / Poetry by individual poets
ISBN:	9780571383511
EAN-Code:	9780571383511
Verlag:	Faber & Faber
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 225 mm / B 180 mm / D 20 mm
Gewicht:	147 gr
Seiten:	112
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Inhalt:

In language that is sensuous and biblical, School of Instructions centres on the experience of West Indian volunteer soldiers in British regiments during the First World War. The poem gathers the psychic and physical terrors of these Black soldiers in the Middle East war theatre and refracts their struggle against the colonial power they served. The narratives of the soldiers overlap with Godspeed, a young schoolboy living in rural Jamaica of the 1990s. This visionary collision, written in a form Ishion Hutchinson calls 'contrapuntal versets', unsettles time and event. It reshapes grand gestures of heroism into a music of supple, vigilant intensity. Elegiac and odic, epochal and lyrical, the triumph of School of Instructions is how it confronts the legacy of imperial silencing and etches shards of remembrances into a form of survival.