The“Dragging Foot”of Jose Garcia Villa’s Performative“Comma Poems”
作者机构：University of Southern California
出 版 物：《Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures》 (外国语言与文化（英文）)
年 卷 期：2022年第6卷第2期
页 面：121-131页
学科分类：0501[文学-中国语言文学] 0303[法学-社会学] 0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 05[文学]
主 题：JoséGarcia Villa modernist poetry commas Sara Ahmed queer/erip theory
摘 要：Jose Garcia Villa’s comma poem,in which he introduces“a new,special and poetic usefor the comma,is arguably the poet s most contentious *** from an appropriation of Leonard Caspar’s description of the comma poems as demonstrably malfunctional as a dragging foot,this essay argues that the comma poem was a visual performance whereby Villa dis-oriented and de-naturalized poetic“flowsthrough a quccr/crip aesthetic of hesitation and *** as footsteps and/or footnotes,the comma’s minor mark interrupts and dis-ablcs normative flow,forcing the reader to adopt a nonnormative“gait.Utilizing Sara Ahmed’s phenomenological theory of queer orientation,I examine how the comma poems’specific incongruity extends beyond modem grammars:anticipating readings of his“foreignnessandinsensitivityto the English *** performs the essentiality of the“minor markthrough linguistic *** doing so,he queers not only the“directionof modem poetry and its canonicity,but also a contemporary politics of recuperation.
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