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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... reflects its contem- poraneity but how it looks back, how it remembers, what it forgets, its marking a temporal divide and reconstructing a time before. The work of memory is political. Memorial narratives form collective identities ...
... reflect a hodgepodge of modes of canonization, extending far beyond academic criteria. Fourteen Dickinson poems cluster near “The Purple Cow,” Emerson's poems lead into Eugene Field's whimsical children's rhymes, and Poe's most popular ...
... reflecting his judg- ment that American poetry began to come into its own around 1910. The nineteenth-century poets he includes, nineteen men and Emily Dickinson, have survived a silencing of poetry's public voice that Matthiessen ...
... reflects the reenvisioning of American litera- ture driven by recuperative scholarship on multiethnic and women's ... reflect social issues. Emerson's and Margaret Fuller's poetry and prose are presented under “Explorations of an ...
... reflects improve- ments in women's education between 1780 and 1830.34 From about 1820 to 1870, an alternative, female public sphere thrived in print under the leadership of women editors and contributed to the bur- geoning of American ...
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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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