ethnopoetics

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A poetical, linguistic and anthropological movement dealing with poetry written by, or in the style of, indigenous peoples.

Word forms

ethnopoetics

Etymology

From ethno- + poetics, coined in 1968 by Jerome Rothenberg and George Quasha.

Related words

ethnopoet ethnopoetic
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