Word: americanizing
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...really touched by the passages he read and how he got very emotional,” said audience member Meredith C. Woods ’83. “As an African American, his book really speaks to me and my own cultural experience. It is so important because it speaks to a lot of people’s American experience no matter what ethnicity you are touching...
Merwin won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry twice, in both 1971 and 2009. He also won the Tanning Prize, one of the highest honors bestowed by the Academy of American Poets...
Aside from a superb soundtrack, the film’s other strength is its wonderful cast of character actors. Hoffman remains at his brashest and bawdiest as an American DJ, a stark opposite from Nighy’s prim, if slightly spaced-out, British gentleman. Unquestionably, though, the funniest performance comes from Kenneth Branagh as a viciously polite British official intent on destroying Radio Rock. His outraged caricature is particularly evident during a scene in which he casually threatens to outlaw one of his subordinate’s haircuts. Nick Frost’s (“Shaun...
Alexander’s inspiration seems to be culled as much from the natural beauty of Sri Lanka as the sufferings of its people, who have endured 26 years of civil war. As an African American writer in the tradition of Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire, Alexander sometimes goes astray in his characterization of the post-colonial experience, misguidedly evoking a universalized disposition in Africa as in South Asia. He transposes this affinity onto his narrator, who makes the reverse gesture: “I am Mahayana & of Africa / both Sri Lankan & non-Sri Lankan...
...voice so chronically self-indulgent that by the end of this monumental poem even its most grandiose aural gestures are reduced to ambient noise. Alexander has chosen a deeply unusual setting for his epic: both Sri Lanka and old-fashioned nautical adventuring are idiosyncratic interests for an American poet. The island, despite its physical loveliness and tragic recent history, is yet to inspire a fitting work of poetry or prose, and for all its ambition, “The Sri Lankan Loxodrome,” does not do justice to its subject...