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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... gender seemed almost to be the poem's destination, the repressed worry it had to get out, the puzzle toward which its poetics drove it. Why? And why invest that anxiety in a mummy, a body whose living took place in an indistinct past ...
... gender, and class. Working beyond the limits of established canons to recover knowledge excluded from a false universalism impels a focus on situatedness: a poet's search for a place from which to speak, whether central or marginal ...
... gender difference occupies in the dominant tradition of Western poetics. For a critical poetics concerned with systemic oppression, we must examine the uses that the lyric self makes of the other and the interests those uses serve in a ...
... gender haunts these discounted centuries. Sundquist highlights W. E. B. Du Bois's figuring the devastated “body” of colonized Africa as a woman in “The Riddle of the Sphinx”: The will of the world is a whistling wind, sweeping a cloud ...
... gender difference to chronicle the workings of social power on and in the community, drawing lines between false and true self- interest, and envisioning how social justice will be realized. In Loew's Bridge, Lambert shapes subjectivity ...
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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 |