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.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Blau Duplessis
• Assisted by: Albert Gelpi (Editor), Ross Posnock (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.09.2012
• EAN: 9780521483001
• ISBN: 978-0-521-48300-1
• No. of pages: 254
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 568 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American; Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies