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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... signifies a system for producing property, pleasure, and leisure for one race through the property status, bodily victimization, and labor of the other. Racial difference thus takes roles similar to those that gender dif- ference ...
... signifies the losses that will be restored; but, as Gould seems to acknowledge in her mummy poem, signs of redemption have never been present in the past and the fu- ture they promise will never be. “For,” Cameron writes, “to tell time ...
... signify the void that both threatens and generates social order. Slavoj Zizek describes the effects of confronting the fascinating but deadly borderline surrounding the void as “the trauma of the inherent impossibility.”45 Habitus ...
... signifies the fu- ture through her loving consent to the ascendancy of the dominant race.51 Contested Temporal Boundaries The poetics of time concerns not only how a poem reflects its contem- poraneity but how it looks back, how it ...
... signify the nineteenth century.27 Women's Culture , Women's Poetry A compelling paradox for feminist literary studies is that the historical developments folded into the term “ modernity ” —democratization , urban- ization ...
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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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