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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... voice of a child about an unburied other from the past, while Piatt and Lambert both engage in a temporal gesture that flourished in postbellum plantation literature: crossing backward, from adulthood to childhood and from a world ...
... voice from history and thus excludes agency. “All lyrics oppose speech to the action from which it exempts itself,”16 Sharon Cameron writes in her study of Emily Dickinson. Lyric poetry as a field defines its autonomy in resistance to ...
... saving immediacy is an unspeaking female background to the lyric voice . Cele- brating lyric speech that “ breaks down the walls of individuality through its consummation of the particular,”25 Adorno leaves unexamined an en- 12 ...
... voice, and generalized meanings take over for individual ones. Conflict is parodied, differences exaggerated and collapsed.44 Stereotypes work in similar ways, invested with anxiety about time. Baldwin calls our attention to how ...
... voice retreats in shaping po- etry's separateness from the social dynamics of racial modernity. The lyric impulse to freeze time, to escape it, drives racial stereotypes; they mark a rejection of the temporality of raced institutions ...
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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 |