American Evil: Steven Zultanski's Bribery, liberal guilt and the quest for authenticity
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Resumo: | This article discusses American poet Steven Zultanski's 2014 Bribery, a book of post-conceptual poetry which unfolds as a quest for authenticity, the aim being to address the sense of impasse and guilt that, according to the book's speaker, are prevalent among the denizens of America, depicted throughout as the nexus of evil. For Bribery's speaker, we argue, authenticity is a necessary part of his method which aims at beginning again and at circumventing neoliberalism's individualising tendencies, which make his efforts to change the status quo feel futile. Similarly to earlier American writers like Franklin or Thoreau, self-development, for Bribery's speaker, becomes a route towards precision and humility, a way to reimagine his community without elevating himself and resorting to easy moralism. Bribery is an experimental project that works methodically to generate something precise and surprising without relying on randomness and abstraction. |
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American Evil: Steven Zultanski's Bribery, liberal guilt and the quest for authenticityThis article discusses American poet Steven Zultanski's 2014 Bribery, a book of post-conceptual poetry which unfolds as a quest for authenticity, the aim being to address the sense of impasse and guilt that, according to the book's speaker, are prevalent among the denizens of America, depicted throughout as the nexus of evil. For Bribery's speaker, we argue, authenticity is a necessary part of his method which aims at beginning again and at circumventing neoliberalism's individualising tendencies, which make his efforts to change the status quo feel futile. Similarly to earlier American writers like Franklin or Thoreau, self-development, for Bribery's speaker, becomes a route towards precision and humility, a way to reimagine his community without elevating himself and resorting to easy moralism. Bribery is an experimental project that works methodically to generate something precise and surprising without relying on randomness and abstraction.20232023-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/10216/154728eng0013-838X10.1080/0013838X.2023.2170591Guimarães, João PauloSiltanen, Elinainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-29T13:59:35Zoai:repositorio-aberto.up.pt:10216/154728Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T23:51:49.787638Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Guimarães, João Paulo |
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Guimarães, João Paulo Siltanen, Elina |
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This article discusses American poet Steven Zultanski's 2014 Bribery, a book of post-conceptual poetry which unfolds as a quest for authenticity, the aim being to address the sense of impasse and guilt that, according to the book's speaker, are prevalent among the denizens of America, depicted throughout as the nexus of evil. For Bribery's speaker, we argue, authenticity is a necessary part of his method which aims at beginning again and at circumventing neoliberalism's individualising tendencies, which make his efforts to change the status quo feel futile. Similarly to earlier American writers like Franklin or Thoreau, self-development, for Bribery's speaker, becomes a route towards precision and humility, a way to reimagine his community without elevating himself and resorting to easy moralism. Bribery is an experimental project that works methodically to generate something precise and surprising without relying on randomness and abstraction. |
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