Adrienne Rich - Passion, Politics and the Body

Informationen zum Autor Liz Yorke is a counsellor at Nottingham Trent University. She is the author of Impertinent Voices: Subversive Strategies in Contemporary Women's Writing (1991). Klappentext Adrienne Rich is a major American poet who continues to be inspired by the political ideas and activism of various liberation movements of the twentieth century. Whether expressed in poetry or in prose, her ideas have been much debated, particularly within second wave feminism. This unique introduction focuses on Rich's prose work but also makes reference to the poetry where her political ideas and urgencies often find their first expression. Demonstrating the compexity and subtlety of her contribution to feminism, the book outlines her wide-ranging thoughts on, for example, motherhood, heterosexuality, lesbian and Jewish identity, and issues of racial and sexual otherness. Liz Yorke conveys the range and importance of Rich's achievements and highlights the major themes which are interwoven in her work. Zusammenfassung This text explores the ideas of the influential lesbian feminist poet! Adrienne Rich! covering such topics as: feminist struggles; the focus on the "body"; the spiritual continuity of women's history; and "the dynamic between poetry as language and poetry as a kind of action". Inhaltsverzeichnis `What I Know, I Know through Making Poems¿ Feminist Beginnings in the Early Poetry Reversing the Going Logic How Hear the Women `To Her Own Speech¿ Embodied Experience Passion and Politics in >Lesbian Identity, Compulsory Heterosexuality and `The Common "Woman"¿ Back to the Body, Back to Earth Concrete Experience as `The Core of Revolutionary Process¿ Inside and Outside, Centre and Margin, Jew and Gentile The Contradictory World of Multiple, Threshold Identity

Product details

• Authors: Liz Yorke, Yorke Liz
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.12.1997
• EAN: 9780803977273
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-7727-3
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Women of Ideas Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, American English, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Feminism & feminist theory, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Lesbian studies, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, Gay & Lesbian Studies;Women′s Studies