Democracy in Contemporary U.S. Women's Poetry (American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century)

✍ Scribed by Nicky Marsh

Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 236
Edition: First Edition
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book supplements existing narratives of feminist poetry by examining how contemporary women poets have interrogated what it means to be public. It draws on recent debates in democratic theory and third-wave feminism to explore the work of women poets as varied as Susan Howe, Rita Dove, Jorie Graham, Harryette Mullen and Leslie Scalapino. It examines how these poets offer a critique of the normative conventions of U.S democracy, particularly its assumptions about public and private, and use their writing, and its cultural structures, to model alternatives to them.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction: Becoming Publics: Democracy and Contemporary U.S. Women's Poetry......Page 12
Gender Trouble: The Foundations of Third-Wave Critique......Page 24
Difference and Democracy: June Jordan and Susan Howe......Page 31
Erica Hunt: Notes for an Oppositional Poetics......Page 47
Introduction......Page 50
The Privatization of the Academy......Page 52
Lady Freedom among Us?: Rita Dove......Page 58
Witnessing Responsibility: Carolyn Forché......Page 65
Reclaiming Silence: Jorie Graham......Page 74
Introduction......Page 84
Writing for the Reader: A Dialectic of Engagement......Page 87
An Impossible Task: Lyn Hejinian's Autobiography......Page 93
Total Art: Being Public in the Work of Leslie Scalapino......Page 102
Introduction......Page 112
The Aesthetics of the Obscene......Page 113
Do It Yourself (DIY) Poetry and Visual Writing......Page 116
The Case of Kathy Acker......Page 121
Meat the Poet: Women, Work, and Class......Page 125
Poetry and Riot Grrrl......Page 135
Introduction......Page 142
A Romantic Materialism......Page 143
The Responses of Juliana Spahr......Page 147
Harryette Mullen and an Emancipatory Literacy......Page 153
Lisa Jarnot: Literacy and Survival......Page 158
Notes......Page 166
Bibliography......Page 200
B......Page 228
F......Page 229
G......Page 230
J......Page 231
M......Page 232
P......Page 233
S......Page 234
Z......Page 235

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