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

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
0230600263, 9780230600263, 9780230607156
Open Library ID
OL10194695M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1008 kB (1032391 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
228\236
Topic
Literature Literary
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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