Reading Robert Frost in South Sudan: Literature, Nationhood, and the Sound of a Country
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Antony LoewensteinJul 24, 2016
Summary
This essay from the Los Angeles Review of Books explores the relationship between national identity, literature, and sound, framed through the experience of reading Robert Frost's poetry in the newly independent nation of South Sudan. The author reflects on how a country finds its voice and identity through its literature and cultural expressions, using Frost's work as a lens to examine themes of nation-building, belonging, and the poetic cadences that define a people. The piece is a literary meditation on what it means for a nation to "sound" like itself.
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Twitter / XReading Robert Frost in South Sudan: Literature, Nationhood, and the Sound of a Countrylareviewofbooks.orgKey quotes
· 3 pulledThe plane lifting off from Raleigh-Durham at dusk felt, in that small vestibule of time when the wheels are no longer on the ground but the plane has not yet surrendered itself to air, like the caesura in a line of blank verse: a momentary suspension between stresses, the breath you didn't know you were holding.
Reading Robert Frost in a newly independent South Sudan.
How does a country sound?
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