James Fenton in South-East Asia
Finding a Language for the Unsayable
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20043240 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sara Greaves (0000-0002-8181-4393, Aix-Marseille Université, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Pages | 213-226 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Trouver une langue / Finding a language (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Artois Presses Université (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/books.apu.20333 |
| OpenAlex | W3171346894 |
| ISBN | 9782848324661 |
| Language | EN |
In the early 1970s British poet James Fenton (1949-), whose poetry straddles the gap between high culture and political violence, worked as a newspaper reporter in South-East Asia and visited Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. In the mid-1970s he spent two years in the Philippines and in 1980 he was in Korea where he witnessed the Gwangju Uprising. These places provided Fenton with the material for some of his most moving and admirable poems, as well as for his political essays published first by Gr
Archaeology · China · East Asia · Geography · Linguistics · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Philosophy · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
|---|