To Love or to Die?: Gay Love in selected poetry of Richard Siken, Ocean Vuong and Jericho Brown
| Název práce v češtině: | “Žít nebo Milovat?: Gay Láska ve Vybrané Poezii Richarda Sikena, Ocean Vuonga a Jericha Browna” |
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| Název v anglickém jazyce: | To Love or to Die?: Gay Love in selected poetry of Richard Siken, Ocean Vuong and Jericho Brown |
| Klíčová slova: | Současná Americká Poezie|Gay Poezie|Gay Trauma|Menšiny|Pud Smrti|Láska a Smrt |
| Klíčová slova anglicky: | Contemporary American Poetry|Gay Poetry|Gay Trauma|Minorities|Death Drive|Love and Death |
| Akademický rok vypsání: | 2022/2023 |
| Typ práce: | bakalářská práce |
| Jazyk práce: | angličtina |
| Ústav: | Ústav anglofonních literatur a kultur (21-UALK) |
| Vedoucí / školitel: | Stephan Delbos, M.F.A., Ph.D. |
| Řešitel: | skrytý - zadáno a potvrzeno stud. odd. |
| Datum přihlášení: | 08.01.2023 |
| Datum zadání: | 09.01.2023 |
| Schválení administrátorem: | bylo schváleno |
| Datum potvrzení stud. oddělením: | 11.01.2023 |
| Datum a čas obhajoby: | 20.06.2024 09:00 |
| Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: | 05.01.2024 |
| Datum proběhlé obhajoby: | 20.06.2024 |
| Odevzdaná/finalizovaná: | odevzdaná studentem a finalizovaná |
| Oponenti: | doc. Justin Quinn, Ph.D. |
| Zásady pro vypracování |
| In his poetry collection “Crush” Richard Siken writes: “and you know that a boy who likes boys is a dead boy, unless / he keeps his mouth shut, which is what you didn’t do.” This quote encompasses the notion of gay love being something forbidden or a truth that would result in violence and even death if revealed, rather than being a eulogized heterosexual romance. The works of contemporary American poets Richard Siken, Ocean Vuong and Jericho Brown repel the All American mold with various themes stemming from oppression. Although their poetry is from three different perspectives: a white American, a Vietnamese-American immigrant and a black American perspective, they share the experience of gay trauma. Richard Siken’s desire “like a monster” echoes throughout “Crush” in poems filled with grotesque depictions of male-male relationships. Furthermore, the fear of disappointing one’s refugee parents with queer identity is prevalent in Ocean Vuong’s poetry books “Night Sky with Exit Wounds” and “Time is a Mother”. Lastly, a fear of death in face of homophobia as well as systemic racism is integral to the poetry of Jericho Brown–namely in “The Tradition” and “The New Testament”. This thesis will explore all three perspectives of these author’s selected poetry and further inquire into their common concept of death as part of the queer love experience. |
| Seznam odborné literatury |
| Bibliography Brown, Jericho. The New Testament. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2014. –. The tradition. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2020. Cho, Jennifer. “‘We Were Born from Beauty’: Dis/Inheriting Genealogies of Refugee and Queer Shame in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.” Melus 47 no.1 (2022): 130-153. https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlac024. Edelman, Lee. No Future. Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. Glück, Louise. American Originality: Essays on Poetry. La Vergne: Carcanet, 2021. hooks, bell. Yearning: Race, Gender and Cultural Politics. Boston: South End Press, 1990. Kempenaers, Tine. “Queer Discomfort: Desire and Heteronormativity in Richard Siken's Crush”. College Literature 46 no. 4 (2019): 914-941. https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.2019.0037. Kronenberg, Simeon. “Love in Contemporary Gay Male Poetry in the Works of Richard Siken, Eduardo C. Corral, and Jericho Brown.” Cordite Poetry Review 1 (2015). Nguyen, Kelly. “Queering Telemachus: Ocean Vuong, Postmemories and the Vietnam War.” International Journal of the Classical Tradition 29 no. 4 (2022): 430-448. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12138-021-00605-3. Vuong, Ocean. Night Sky with Exit Wounds. London: Jonathan Cape, 2017. –. Time is a Mother. London: Cape Poetry, 2022. Siken, Richard. Crush. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. |