Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, - 1908 193

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Duplessis shows how! through poetic language! modernist writers represented the debates around social issues. 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. 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.

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• Authors: Rachel Blau Duplessis, Rachel Blau (Temple University Duplessis
• Assisted by: Albert Gelpi (Editor), Ross Posnock (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.01.2001
• EAN: 9780521483353
• ISBN: 978-0-521-48335-3
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies