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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... male sphere, while women's oral transmission of culture took place within families and local communities. For American republi- canism, print was an expedient supplement to oratory in the development of consensus, given the national ...
... male public sphere increasingly re- lied on written communication and on the social extension and critical awareness that literacy enables: wide networking, access to viewpoints other than the local, and skepticism about local opinions ...
... male pub- lic thinks poetry is “effeminate nonsense.” Watts argues that the commer- cial advantages of sentimentality persuaded male poets to conform to “ef- feminate” poetics.44 More is at work here, however, than men writing what ...
... male- dominated tradition of Romantic idealism. Rather than expressing women writers' agony over the difficulty of writing in a feminized genre for a fem- inized marketplace, the strain of women's poetics that Walker traced more likely ...
... male ” who arrived in his carriage , like the macabre suitor in “ Because I could not stop for Death , ” to rescue her from “ im- murement in the culture of ladylike gentility . ” 51 Whether or not it makes sense to locate Dickinson's ...
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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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