Adrienne Rich's Later Poetry - Raya Dunayevskaya and Marxist-Humanism

Reorienting understandings of Adrienne Rich''s later work through her interest in Marx and Marxist politics, this book engages with this overlooked part of her oeuvre through considerations of issues such as race, nationhood, and gender. From 1983 onward, after she visited revolutionary Nicaragua until the end of her life, Rich''s political vision can best be described as Marxist-Humanist. Until recently, very little attention has been paid to Rich''s "interest" in Marx; there is no in-depth treatment of the effect of Marx''s humanistic philosophy on Rich''s later work, or even on her unwavering, but altered dedication to Women''s Liberation. This book fills this gap, showing how Rich''s discovery of Marx''s humanism affected her poetry. In doing so, it makes a significant intervention into debates about the direction of American poetics and argues powerfully for a greater consciousness of political engagement through poetry.>

About the author

Alec Marsh is Professor of English at Muhlenberg College, Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author of Ezra Pound (Reaktion Books 2011), and Money & Modernity: Pound, Williams and the Spirit of Jefferson (Alabama, 1998).

Product details

• Authors: Alec Marsh
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.01.2025
• EAN: 9781350466975
• ISBN: 978-1-350-46697-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 238 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Historicizing Modernism
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets