Race and Time: American Women's Poetics from Antislavery to Racial ModernityUniversity of Iowa Press, 2004 - 336 halaman 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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... poetry . And I saw myself in it ; I saw a likeness between the child's interrogation of the mummy and the musty adventure in recuperative scholarship that led me to the poem . But the parenthetical reference to race bothered me . Gould ...
... poetry—or rather a white woman writing poetry in nineteenth-century New England, a condition often treated as “the tradition” in recuperative scholarship on American women's poetry? Gould's poem pointed me toward a thesis for this book ...
... poetry and the making of the historical category of race. As is often true with impassioned immersions, late in the writing of this book ... Gould's mummy (Gould's stereotype? mine?) meant for me to stay with the unknowing and, beyond that, ...
... Gould's mummy poem , for this book I chose to look closely at three postbellum poems that I selected for She Wields a Pen , all of which cross backward over the temporal divide of emancipation to explore the raced and gendered ...
... poetry, also concerns the historical construction of child- hood and the coinciding development of nonsense as a mode of juvenile literature. Gould seems to forecast this convergence of categories in her mummy poem, speaking in the ...
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III POSTBELLUM | 101 |
IV OTHER TIMESChildhood and Nonsense | 183 |
Poems Cited | 235 |
Notes | 293 |
Works Cited | 311 |
Index | 321 |
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