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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... popular culture , politics and state power that enforced uniform white supremacist norms as ' self - evident ' social ' facts . ' ” 6 A broader view of racial modernity would include the strategies that people of color as well as white ...
... popular culture? Does it value newness or familiarity, fixed or unstable meaning, and how does this orientation concern material and philosophical stasis or change? Does emphasis rest on audience or author, speaking or reading, form or ...
... popular culture , in spirituality and religion , in everyday language and gastronomy . ” 66 If African practices pervaded new cultural formations in the Americas , the transatlantic slave trade had a still wider impact ; Howard Dodson ...
... popular print culture during its coming of age—quite possibly, as Edmund Clarence Stedman claimed in 1900, the leading American liter- ary genre from the 1820s to the 1870s.70 Second, female literacy rose dra- matically during the first ...
... popular women poets of the era . Chapter 3 , “ Skins May Differ : Women's Republicanism and the Poetics of Aboli- tionism , ” identifies divergences between abolitionist poetics and the elite poetic tradition by reading Elizabeth ...
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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 |