We Who Love to be Astonished : Experimental Women's Writing and Performance Poetics Paperback / softback
Edited by Laura Hinton, Cynthia Hogue
Part of the Modern & Contemporary Poetics series
Paperback / softback
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We Who Love to Be Astonished collects a powerful group of previously unpublished essays to fill a gap in the critical evaluation of women's contributions to postmodern experimental writing.
Contributors include Alan Golding, Aldon Nielsen, and Rachel Blau DuPlessis; discussions include analyses of the work of Kathleen Fraser, Harryette Mullen, and Kathy Acker, among others.
The editors take as their title a line from the work of Lyn Hejinina, one of the most respected of innovative women poets writing today.
The volume is organized into four sections: the first two seek to identify, from two different angles, the ways women of different sociocultural backgrounds are exploring their relationships to their cultures' inherited traditions; the third section investigates the issue of visuality and the problems and challenges it creates; and the fourth section expands on the role of the body as material and performance.
The collection will breach a once irreconcilable divide between those who theorize about women's writing and those who focus on formalist practice.
By embracing ""astonishment"" as the site of formalist-feminist investigation, the editors seek to show how form configures feminist thought, and, likewise, how feminist thought informs words and letters on a page.
Students and scholars of avant-garde poetry, women's writing, and late-20th-century American literature will welcome this lively discussion.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:376 pages, 13 illustrations
- Publisher:The University of Alabama Press
- Publication Date:30/12/2001
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- ISBN:9780817310950
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:376 pages, 13 illustrations
- Publisher:The University of Alabama Press
- Publication Date:30/12/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9780817310950
