Autumn Sequel: A Rhetorical Poem in XXVI Cantos

Publication Instance Details #3030

Publication Overview

Translation	Is Multilingual	Explicit Irish Context?	Ekphrasis	Has Paratext?	Reference to News, Media or Technology
No	No	No	No	No	Yes

Details

Human Rights Issues	War HR & Colonisation/Colonial Legacies Displacement/Forced Migration Genocide Poverty/Deprivation/Lack of Sustenance Racism/anti-Semitism/Sectarianism State Violence
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Second World War War: Kenya Emergency
Languages	English
Genre	Long (narrative) Poem
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	The many references in this book-length poem include: Canto IV – Dunkirk; the Axis capture of Tobruk (17–21 June 1942) which was part of the Western Desert Campaign in Libya during WW2; The Battle of Singapore, also known as the Fall of Singapore (8–15 February 1942, which marked capture of Singapore by the Empire of Japan; propaganda; Josef Goebbels; air raids in London. Canto V – Czech and Polish resistance; totalitarianism. Canto X – South African apartheid; tensions between Nigerian Ibo and Yoruba peoples; Korean and Indian international relations; refugees in India; and a possible reference to the Mau Mau uprising in Nairobi and British involvement (1952–1960). Canto XIX – bombings in Kenya.