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Mark Anthony Cayanan
The Exophonic Lyric
A Poetics
Situated within the author’s own creative practice and, more broadly, Philippine anglophone literature, this chapter analyses how exophony affirms Jahan Ramazani’s contemporary model of the lyric, which is ‘intergeneric, transnational, [and] translingual’. The intergeneric and transnational qualities of the lyric emerge in its exophonic iteration through the communion of the genre’s transplanted tradition and one drawn from vernacular poetics. A scrutiny of the author’s poetry also exhibits how the ‘compressed heteroglossia’ located within the lyric — the fusion of multiple voices into an ostensibly singular enunciatory phenomenon — may be deployed to signify cultural irreconcilabilities. Supplementing the essay’s preoccupations are sample poems from the author’s manuscript.
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The Exophonic Lyric
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A Poetics
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Mark Anthony Cayanan
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Situated within the author’s own creative practice and, more broadly, Philippine anglophone literature, this chapter analyses how exophony affirms Jahan Ramazani’s contemporary model of the lyric, which is ‘intergeneric, transnational, [and] translingual’. The intergeneric and transnational qualities of the lyric emerge in its exophonic iteration through the communion of the genre’s transplanted tradition and one drawn from vernacular poetics. A scrutiny of the author’s poetry also exhibits how the ‘compressed heteroglossia’ located within the lyric — the fusion of multiple voices into an ostensibly singular enunciatory phenomenon — may be deployed to signify cultural irreconcilabilities. Supplementing the essay’s preoccupations are sample poems from the author’s manuscript.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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20 May 2025
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lyric
exophony
anglophone literature
poetics
opacity
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© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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287
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321
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Breaking and Making Models, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Marietta Kesting, and Claudia Peppel, Cultural Inquiry, 33 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 287–321
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