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Jayne Cortez, Adrienne Rich, and the Feminist Superhero


Jayne Cortez, Adrienne Rich, and the Feminist Superhero

Voice, Vision, Politics, and Performance in U.S. Contemporary Women's Poetics

von: Laura Hinton, Renee M. Kingan, Linda Kinnahan, Deborah Mix, Kirsten Bartholomew Ortega, Jennifer D. Ryan-Bryant, Ellen McGrath Smith, Linda Stein, Conor Tomas Reed

57,99 €

Verlag: Lexington Books
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 25.03.2016
ISBN/EAN: 9781498528740
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 314

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<span><span>One a lyric "confessional" poet and essayist, the other a jazz "spoken-word" performance artist, Adrienne Rich and Jayne Cortez were American feminist superheroes who produced extensive bodies of poetic work that reveal strangely overlapping visions, but in radically different voices and poetic styles. This book reconsiders the poetry activism of Cortez and Rich side-by-side, engaging poetics theory, cultural studies, and popular media in its literary analyses. A collection of eight integrated chapters by multiple poetry critics, as well as an artist-statement narrative by Wonder Woman sculptor Linda Stein, the book focuses upon the voice of bravado, the various calls for global justice, and Third Wave feminist "intersectional" critiques all embodied within these two women's poetic texts. The book also examines the twentieth-century figure of the American superhero, particularly Wonder Woman, bringing popular-culture studies into conversation with literary criticism, as well as visual art through the inclusion of Stein's commentary and illustrations. This beautiful and compelling book experiments with the </span><span>festschrift</span><span> concept by inviting multiple and competing disciplinary views on U.S. feminist poetics, women's art and aesthetics, racial and sexual identities, as well as politics and performance—all in tribute to the power of poetry by Cortez and Rich.</span></span>
<span><span>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.</span></span>
<span><span>Introduction - Wondering about Wonder Women of Contemporary American Poetry</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 1 - Adrienne Rich's </span><span>Snapshot of a Daughter-In-Law</span><span>: The Postwar Photos and the Power of Feminist Reframing</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 2 - From Fragility to Heroic Strength: Mapping the Female Body in Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 3 - Diving into SEEK: Adrienne Rich and the Social Movements at the City College of New York, 1968-1974</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 4 - "Everyone. For a Moment": Adrienne Rich's Public Poetics as Heroism</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 5 - Superheroic Subversion through Music and Movement in Cotrez's "Samba is Power"</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 6 - Vision/Performance/Sound: A Body "Doubling into Woman-hood" in the Poetics of Jayne Cortez</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 7 - "Drums Everywhere Drums": Questioning Object Violence in Jayne Cortez's </span><span>Jazz Fan Looks Back</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 8 - Being New York City: The Feminist Audacity of Jayne Cortez's Urban Poetry </span></span>
<span><span>Laura Hinton</span><span> is professor of English at the City College of New York (CUNY).</span></span>

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