On Lies Secrets And Silence Selected Prose 1966 1978

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1995-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780393348118

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On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978 by Adrienne Rich Pdf

In this collection of prose writings, one of America's foremost poets and feminist theorists reflects upon themes that have shaped her life and work. At issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as "part of the effort to define a female consciousness which is political, aesthetic, and erotic, and which refuses to be included or contained in the culture of passivity."

Author : Adrienne Cecile Rich
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 0860681556

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On Lies, Secrets, and Silence by Adrienne Cecile Rich Pdf

Author : Jane Roberta Cooper
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472063502

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Reading Adrienne Rich by Jane Roberta Cooper Pdf

Gathering reviews and essays which examine Rich's poetry and prose, this text also looks at how critical opinion about her works has changed.

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:987234582

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On lies, secrets, and silence by Adrienne Rich Pdf

Author : Andrea O'Reilly
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791484135

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From Motherhood to Mothering by Andrea O'Reilly Pdf

Explores how Rich's work has influenced feminist scholarship on motherhood.

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994-07-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780393348040

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Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985 by Adrienne Rich Pdf

That Adrienne Rich is a not only a major American poet but an incisive, compelling prose writer is made clear once again by this collection, in which she continues to explore the social and political context of her life and art. Examining the connections between history and the imagination, ethics and action, she explores the possible meanings of being white, female, lesbian, Jewish, and a United States citizen, both at this particular time and through the lens of the past.

Author : Linda M. Grasso
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780807860199

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The Artistry of Anger by Linda M. Grasso Pdf

In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Linda Grasso demonstrates that using anger as a mode of analysis and the basis of an aesthetic transforms our understanding of American women's literary history. Exploring how black and white nineteenth-century women writers defined, expressed, and dramatized anger, Grasso reconceptualizes antebellum women's writing and illuminates an unrecognized tradition of discontent in American literature. She maintains that two equally powerful forces shaped this tradition: women's anger at their exclusion from the democratic promise of America, and the cultural prohibition against its public articulation. Grasso challenges the common notion that nineteenth-century women's writing is confined to domestic themes and shows instead how women channeled their anger into art that addresses complex political issues such as slavery, nation-building, gender arrangements, and race relations. Cutting across racial and genre boundaries, she considers works by Lydia Maria Child, Maria W. Stewart, Fanny Fern, and Harriet Wilson as superb examples of the artistry of angry expression. Transforming their anger through literary imagination, these writers bequeathed their vision of an alternative America both to their contemporaries and to subsequent generations.

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Honesty
ISBN : OCLC:320834454

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Women and Honor by Adrienne Rich Pdf

Author : Joseph Childers,Gary Hentzi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231072430

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The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism by Joseph Childers,Gary Hentzi Pdf

More than 450 succinct entries from A to Z help readers make sense of the interdisciplinary knowledge of cultural criticism that includes film, psychoanalytic, deconstructive, poststructuralist, and postmodernist theory as well as philosophy, media studies, linguistics.

Author : Laura Hinton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498528740

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Jayne Cortez, Adrienne Rich, and the Feminist Superhero by Laura Hinton Pdf

One a lyric "confessional" poet and essayist, the other a jazz "spoken-word" performance artist, Adrienne Rich and Jayne Cortez were American feminist superheroes who produced extensive bodies of poetic work that reveal strangely overlapping visions, but in radically different voices and poetic styles. This book reconsiders the poetry activism of Cortez and Rich side-by-side, engaging poetics theory, cultural studies, and popular media in its literary analyses. A collection of eight integrated chapters by multiple poetry critics, as well as an artist-statement narrative by Wonder Woman sculptor Linda Stein, the book focuses upon the voice of bravado, the various calls for global justice, and Third Wave feminist "intersectional" critiques all embodied within these two women's poetic texts. The book also examines the twentieth-century figure of the American superhero, particularly Wonder Woman, bringing popular-culture studies into conversation with literary criticism, as well as visual art through the inclusion of Stein's commentary and illustrations. This beautiful and compelling book experiments with the festschrift concept by inviting multiple and competing disciplinary views on U.S. feminist poetics, women's art and aesthetics, racial and sexual identities, as well as politics and performance—all in tribute to the power of poetry by Cortez and Rich.

Author : Wendy Martin,Sharone Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317698562

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The Routledge Introduction to American Women Writers by Wendy Martin,Sharone Williams Pdf

The Routledge Introduction to American Women Writers considers the important literary, historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts of American women authors from the seventeenth century to the present and provides readers with an analysis of current literary trends and debates in women’s literature. This accessible and engaging guide covers a variety of essential topics, such as: the transatlantic and transnational origins of American women's literary traditions the colonial period and the Puritans the early national period and the rhetoric of independence the nineteenth century and the Civil War the twentieth century, including modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Civil Rights era trends in twenty-first century American women's writing feminism, gender and sexuality, regionalism, domesticity, ethnicity, and multiculturalism. The volume examines the ways in which women writers from diverse racial, social, and cultural backgrounds have shaped American literary traditions, giving particular attention to the ways writers worked inside, outside, and around the strictures of their cultural and historical moments to create space for women’s voices and experiences as a vital part of American life. Addressing key contemporary and theoretical debates, this comprehensive overview presents a highly readable narrative of the development of literature by American women and offers a crucial range of perspectives on American literary history.

Author : Linda Garber
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231506724

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Identity Poetics by Linda Garber Pdf

"Queer theory," asserts Linda Garber, "alternately buries and vilifies lesbian feminism, missing its valuable insights and ignoring its rich contributions." Rejecting the either/or choice between lesbianism and queer theory, she favors an inclusive approach that defies current factionalism. In an eloquent challenge to the privileging of queer theory in the academy, Garber calls for recognition of the historical—and intellectually significant—role of lesbian poets as theorists of lesbian identity and activism. The connections, Garber shows, are most clearly seen when looking at the pivotal work of working-class lesbians/lesbians of color whose articulations of multiple, simultaneous identity positions and activist politics both belong to lesbian feminism and presage queer theory. Identity Poetics includes a critical overview of recent historical writing about the women's and lesbian-feminist movements of the 1970s; discussions of the works of Judy Grahn, Pat Parker, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and Gloria Anzaldúa; and, finally, a chapter on the rise and hegemony of queer theory within lesbigay studies.

Author : Katrina M. Powell
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030645984

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Performing Autobiography by Katrina M. Powell Pdf

Performing Auto/biography: Narrating a Life as Activism analyzes the rhetorical strategies employed in five authors’ auto/biographical texts, examining their representations of identities and the public implications of writing individual identity. Exploring the ways race, class, culture, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality might affect the form(s) in which writers choose to write (e.g., memoir, fictional autobiography, poetry), questions how autobiographers challenge notions of genre, truth, and representation. This builds on the argument that constructing identity is a Performing Autobiography performance, one that can simultaneously use and subvert traditional notions of rhetoric and genre. By examining the auto/biographical texts of Zora Neale Hurston, Audre Lorde, Dorothy Allison, Joyce Johnson, and Shirley Geok-lin Lim together, the book theorizes self-representation and genres as rhetorical performances, and therefore their texts can be seen as “performative auto/biography”—transgressive archives where readers are asked to consider their own identities and act accordingly. In doing so, this book contributes to growing theories in feminist rhetorics and auto/biography studies, arguing that these performative genres advocate for life narratives as political and social activism.

Author : Kim Moore
Publisher : Seren
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781781726884

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Are You Judging Me Yet? by Kim Moore Pdf

Five 'lyric essays' exploring the dynamics of performing poetry as a female poet – confronting the implications of being a female on public display, with the connotations of sexual objectification, in a context that traditionally disregards the body. Kim states "With the strides and gains made through the #MeToo movement, I believe the time is right for a book like this to make an impact. As a female poet, I know there is a need for such a book to examine the intersection between writing, performing, feminism and sexism. I wish this book had been written when I first started working as a freelance writer and I've had many conversations with other female poets who have also confirmed my thinking – that female poets are navigating these things regularly, and yet nobody is really writing or talking about them." The book draws on her experiences of writing and performing the poems in her second collection All the Men I Never Married. It is a balance of memoir, academic treatise and poetry, though the author's emphasis is on writing in a popular way and making the subject accessible to a wide audience. To achieve this her models have been Maggie Nelson's Bluets, Claudia Rankine's Citizen and Sarah Ahmed's Living a Feminist Life. The book's subjects include heckling at poetry readings and other interactions; problems with the 'male gaze' and what the 'female gaze' might look like in poetry; 'guilty for being a man': how guilt can be useful if it can bring about change; how writing poetry about sexism can shed add meaning to the term; the objectification of men and women, and 'bad faith' arguments. Are You Judging Me Yet?, by Kim Moore, is a remarkable collection of essays and poetry that explore, as the tagline suggests, everyday sexism. – neverintimate '...Moore's work becomes an even more vital tool in the work being done to challenge everyday sexism. Reading her work is not only a window into her own experiences, but may also act as a means of education, and that's something we all need to see more of.' – Wales Arts Review

Author : Kara Kennedy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783030892050

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Women’s Agency in the Dune Universe by Kara Kennedy Pdf

This book undertakes the first large-scale analysis of women’s agency in Frank Herbert’s six-book science fiction Dune series. Kara Kennedy explores how female characters in the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood—from Jessica to Darwi Odrade—secure control and influence through five avenues of embodied agency: mind-body synergy, reproduction and motherhood, voices, education and memory, and sexuality. She also discusses constraints on their agency, tensions between individual and collective action, and comparisons with other characters including the Mentats, Bene Tleilaxu, and Honored Matres. The book engages with second-wave feminist theories and historical issues to highlight how the series anticipated and paralleled developments in the women’s liberation movement. In this context, it addresses issues regarding sexual difference and solidarity, as well as women’s demand to have control over their bodies. Kennedy concludes that the series should be acknowledged as a significant contribution to the genre as part of both New Wave and feminist science fiction.