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Adrienne Rich : challenging authors
\"In her six-decade long writing career Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) addressed, with sagacity and probing honesty, most of the significant issues of her lifetime. A poet of finely tuned craft, she won numerous prizes, awards, and honorary degrees, and famously rejected the prestigious National Medal for the Arts in 1997. She wrote twenty-five volumes of poetry and seven non-fiction books as she combined the roles of poet, scholar, theorist, and activist. Rich wrote passionately and powerfully about major 20th and early 21st century concerns such as feminism, racism, sexism, the Vietnam War, Marxism, militarism, the growing income disparities in the U.S., and other social issues. Her works ask important questions about how we should act, and what we should believe. They imagine new ways to deal with the social and political challenges of the twentieth century. Setting her work in the context of her life and American politics and culture during her lifetime, this book explores Rich's poetic and personal journey from conservative, dutiful follower of cultural and poetic traditions to challenging questioner and critic, from passivity and powerlessness to activist, theorist, and acclaimed 'poet of the oppositional imagination.'\"--Cover page 4.
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From motherhood to mothering : the legacy of Adrienne Rich's Of woman born
In the years since the publication of Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born, the topic of motherhood has emerged as a central issue in feminist scholarship. Arguably still the best feminist book on mothering and motherhood, Of Woman Born is not only a wide-ranging, far-reaching meditation on the meaning and experience of motherhood that draws from the disciplines of anthropology, feminist theory, psychology, and literature, but it also narrates Rich’s personal reflections on her experiences of mothering. Andrea O’Reilly gathers feminist scholars from diverse disciplines such as literature, women’s studies, law, sociology, anthropology, creative writing, and critical theory and examines how Of Woman Born has informed and influenced the way feminist scholarship “thinks and talks” about motherhood. The contributors explore the many ways in which Rich provides the analytical tools to study and report upon the meaning and experience of motherhood.
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Jayne Cortez, Adrienne Rich, and the feminist superhero
This collection of essays on the topics of feminist voice, vision, and performance in political poetries by Jayne Cortez and Adrienne Rich includes visual art and commentary by the feminist sculptor Linda Stein. The book examines the rise of the American popular-culture female superhero--notably, Wonder Woman--exploring the textuality of female-poetic activism through this superhero theme.
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Translating poetic discourse : questions on feminist strategies in Adrienne Rich
Translating Poetic Discourse argues in favor of a critical model that bridges between translation and women's studies on theoretical and practical levels. It proposes key-elements to be integrated into the problem of interpretation of contemporary poetry by women, and discusses the links between gender markers and the speech situation in feminist discourse as a systematic problem. This book will be of interest to scholars of Translation Studies, Women's Studies, Poetry, Comparative Literature and Discourse.
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From Nothing to Letting Nothing Go
This essay reengages Barbara Johnson's restaging of W. H. Auden's proposition that writing makes nothing happen. It pivots away from that proposition by moving with Latinx artist Sofía Córdova's work toward the implicit and explicit commitments of contemporary networks of study that inherit intellectual genealogies of critique that would not recognize the \"nothing\" Auden and Johnson claim.
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Writing selves : contemporary feminist autography
Why \"autography\"? Because there really is no genre for feminist self-writing. This is the territory, between autobiography and feminist thought, that Jeanne Perreault marks out. Looking to Audre Lorde's Cancer Journals, Kate Millet's The Basement, Adrienne Rich's later prose and poetry, and Patricia Williams's \"diary,\" among other works, Perreault compellingly examines writing as a significant element in the processes of self-making.
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The Hell You Say
Thistlethwaite is a white, cisgender, middle-class woman, but she tries hard not to be a fool. She could see the likely outcome of this election, probably since she was in high school when she became an antiwar activist, and she struggled against it. She will continue to do violence against women. The companions along the way have been crucial in the past and will be crucial as they move forward. It's no so. Patriarchy is lethal. She had known that for a very long time, and she suspects you have too. It's been a long journey of resistance and activism, especially around not like they don't know what to do, but the friends of the mind and spirit must be kept near at hand. She read bell hooks, oh so often, and believe her when she writes: \"We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.\"
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