Democracy in Contemporary U.S. Women’s Poetry

✍ Scribed by Nicky Marsh (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 231
Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book reads the work of contemporary women poets against recent debates in third wave feminism and democratic theory in exploring the range of ways in which women poets have interrogated the complexities of being public in contemporary U.S culture.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Paper Money and Tender Acts: Feminism and Democracy....Pages 13-38
The Poetics of Privacy: Writing the Lyric Self....Pages 39-71
Against the Outside: Language Poetry as a Counter-Public....Pages 73-100
Go Grrrl: Democracy and Counterculture....Pages 101-129
Romantic Materialism and Emerging Poets....Pages 131-153
Back Matter....Pages 155-225

✦ Subjects

North American Literature;Gender Studies;Poetry and Poetics;Twentieth-Century Literature;Regional and Cultural Studies;Cultural Studies

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