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Frost Elisabeth A |
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The feminist avant-garde in American poetry [[electronic resource]] |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2005 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (275 p.) |
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American poetry - History and criticism - 20th century - United States |
Feminism and literature - History - 20th century - United States |
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - History - 20th century - United States |
Women and literature - History - 20th Century |
American poetry - History and criticism - Women authors |
Experimental poetry, American - History and criticism |
Feminist poetry, American - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Women Poets and the Historical Avant-Gardes; 1. "Replacing the Noun": Fetishism, Parody, and Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons; 2. "Crisis in Consciousness": Mina Loy's "Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose"; Part II. Agendas of Race and Gender; 3. "a fo / real / revolu/shun": Sonia Sanchez and the Black Arts Movement; Part III. Traditions of Marginality; 4. "Unsettling" America: Susan Howe and Antinomian Tradition; 5. "Belatedly Beladied Blues": Hybrid Traditions in the Poetry of Harryette Mullen; Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Permissions; Index |
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The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry offers a historical and theoretical account of avant-garde women poets in America from the 1910's through the 1990's. Elisabeth Frost focuses on a diverse group of poets--Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, Sonia Sanchez, Susan Howe, and Harryette Mullen--who make language the site of feminist politics. Her study captures the range of aesthetics and politics in the work of avant-garde women poets; challenges the ways in which avant-garde |
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