Race and Time: American Women's Poetics from Antislavery to Racial ModernityUniversity of Iowa Press, 2004 - 336 páginas Race and Time urges our attention to women’s poetry in considering the cultural history of race. Building on close readings of well known and less familiar poets—including Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, Sarah Louisa Forten, Hannah Flagg Gould, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Sarah Piatt, Mary Eliza Tucker Lambert, Sarah Josepha Hale, Eliza Follen, and Mary Mapes Dodge—Gray traces tensions in women’s literary culture from the era of abolitionism to the rise of the Plantation tradition. She devotes a chapter to children’s verse, arguing that racial stereotypes work as “nonsense” that masks conflicts in the construction of white childhood. A compilation of the poems cited, most of which are difficult to find elsewhere, is included as an appendix. Gray clarifies the cultural roles women’s poetry played in the nineteenth-century United States and also reveals that these poems offer a fascinating, dynamic, and diverse field for students of social and cultural history. Gray’s readings provide a rich sense of the contexts in which this poetry is embedded and examine its aesthetic and political vitality in meticulous detail, linking careful explication of the texts with analysis of the history of poetry, canons, literacy, and literary authority. Race and Time distinguishes itself from other critical studies not only through its searching, in-depth readings but also through its sustained attention to less known poets and its departure from a Dickinson-centered model. Most significantly, it offers a focus on race, demonstrating how changes in both the U.S. racial structure and women’s place in public culture set the terms for change in how women poets envisioned the relationship between poetry and social power. Gray’s work makes contributions to several fields of study: poetry, U.S. literary history and American studies, women’s studies, African American studies and whiteness studies, children’s literature, and cultural studies. While placing the works of figures who have been treated elsewhere (e.g., Dickinson and Harper) into revealing new relationships, Race and Time does much to open interdisciplinary discussion of unfamiliar works. |
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... figure , anticipates the nineteenth - cen- tury blossoming of nonsense verse , and tackles a feature of people's rela- tionship to the landscape that poetry in English had not confronted before its migration to North America . The ...
... figure for events in the social world that we do not have “the power to conceive”—for the losses and pos- sibilities that emerge from actual or envisioned historical change. The shock of becoming aware of difference, in other words, may ...
... figure like Gould's stiffened stereotype-in-the-making works as a courier between the making of poetry and the making of the historical category of race. As is often true with impassioned immersions, late in the writing of this book I ...
... figures that hold out the hope that meaning can be salvaged. This population of figures signifies the losses that will be restored; but, as Gould seems to acknowledge in her mummy poem, signs of redemption have never been present in the ...
... figures of the lyric, stereotypes are substitutions that work against time, representations that replace individual and collective histo- ries ... figure, Mammy gives body to the primordial other who has never quite been 18 Introduction.
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61 | |
III POSTBELLUM | 101 |
IV OTHER TIMESChildhood and Nonsense | 183 |
Poems Cited | 235 |
Notes | 293 |
Works Cited | 311 |
Index | 321 |
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Race and Time: American Women's Poetics from Antislavery to Racial Modernity Janet Gray Vista de fragmentos - 2004 |