Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908–1934

Duplessis shows how, through poetic language, modernist writers represented the debates around social issues.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; 1. Entitled new: a social philology of modern American poetries; 2. 'Corpses of poesy': modern poets consider dome gender ideologies of lyric; 3. 'Seismic orgasm': sexual intercourse, its modern representations and politics; 4. 'HOO, HOO, HOO': some episodes in the construction of modern male whiteness; 5. 'Darken your speech': racialized cultural work in black and white poets; 6. 'Wondering Jews': melting pots and mongrel thoughts; Notes; Works cited; Index.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Rachel Blau DuPlessis is Professor of English at Temple University in Philadelphia. She is the author of Writing Beyond the Ending (1985), H.D.: The Career of that Struggle (1986), The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice (1990), she is also editor of The Selected Letters of George Oppen (1990), and co-editor of both The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics (1999) and The Feminist Memoir Project (1998). She is also a widely published poet.

Zusammenfassung

Here, Rachel Blau Duplessis shows how, through poetic language, modernist writers represented the debates around such social issues of modernity as suffrage, sexuality, manhood, and African-American and Jewish subjectivities.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Rachel Blau Duplessis, DuPlessis Rachel Blau
• Mitarbeit: Albert Gelpi (Herausgeber), Ross Posnock (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 11.01.2001
• EAN: 9780521483001
• ISBN: 978-0-521-48300-1
• Abmessung: 157 mm x 236 mm x 21 mm
• Gewicht: 461 g
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in American; Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture; Cambridge Studies in American
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Cultural Studies, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, American English, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets