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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... tion of causal continuity through the creation of memories of threat or pain materializes identity. A dominant ideology validates certain memories as representative and dismisses others as aberrations; a work of memory may promote ...
... what is . Chapter 9 , “ The Containment of Childhood : Reproducing Consump- tion in American Children's Verse , ” takes up a strong secondary thread of the readings in this study to sketch out American children's 30 INTRODUCTION.
... tion to the rise of popular art, holds itself above the commercial market. Skill matters in popular art, but the rules for producing it shift with the de- mands of its consumers, while high art seeks innovations that recognize and ...
... tion to An American Anthology, drew a picture of American literature and poetry's place in it that differs sharply from the canon established by the mid–twentieth century. Poetry, he claims, was the leading American literary form from ...
... tion of American poets in the 1996 edition of The Norton Anthology of Poetry largely follows Matthiessen's pattern, situating Emerson, Longfel- low, Poe, and Melville as the leading figures at a rank below Whitman and Dickinson and ...
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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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