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- Title
Claiming the Property of History in Natasha Trethewey's Native Guard.
- Authors
GILBREATH FORD, SARAH
- Abstract
A literary criticism of Natasha Trethewey's poetry collection "Native Guard" is presented. Topics discussed include the way Trethewey depicted hauntings and personal memories of African American Union Army soldiers during the Civil War, the use of photography and point of view by the author to guide readers as they travel back in time to a particular moment and location described in the poems, and the use of past tense in the poem "South" to reflect on a journey.
- Subjects
NATIVE Guard (Poem); TRETHEWEY, Natasha D., 1966-; THEMES in poetry; MEMORY in literature; AFRICAN American military personnel in literature; POINT of view (Literature); PHOTOGRAPHY in literature; POETRY (Literary form); AMERICAN Civil War, 1861-1865
- Publication
Mississippi Quarterly, 2017, Vol 70/71, Issue 3, p251
- ISSN
0026-637X
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1353/mss.2017.0017