The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry.
Title:
The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry.
Author:
Frost, Elisabeth A.
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9781587294341
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (275 pages)
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Women Poets and the Historical Avant-Gardes -- 1. "Replacing the Noun": Fetishism, Parody, and Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons -- 2. "Crisis in Consciousness": Mina Loy's "Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose" -- Part II. Agendas of Race and Gender -- 3. "a fo / real / revolu/shun": Sonia Sanchez and the Black Arts Movement -- Part III. Traditions of Marginality -- 4. "Unsettling" America: Susan Howe and Antinomian Tradition -- 5. "Belatedly Beladied Blues": Hybrid Traditions in the Poetry of Harryette Mullen -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Permissions -- Index.
Abstract:
The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry offers a historical and theoretical account of avant-garde women poets in America from the 1910s through the 1990s. Elisabeth Frost focuses on a diverse group of poets--Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, Sonia Sanchez, Susan Howe, and Harryette Mullen--who make language the site of feminist politics. Her study captures the range of aesthetics and politics in the work of avant-garde women poets; challenges the ways in which avant-garde writing has been defined and categorized; expands traditional conceptions of feminism and feminist poetics; and addresses issues of gender and race, allowing for discussion of a rich range of feminist and linguistic concerns.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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