The cracks between what we are and what we are supposed to be [[electronic resource] ] : essays and interviews / / Harryette Mullen ; introduction by Hank Lazer

• Autore: Mullen Harryette Romell
• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University Alabama Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (292 p.)
• Disciplina: 811/.54
• Soggetto topico: Poets, American - 20th century; African American women poets; Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century; African American women - Intellectual life - 20th century
• Classificazione: LIT014000
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. Shorter Essays; 1. Imagining the Unimagined Reader: Writing to the Unborn and Including the Excluded; 2. Poetry and Identity; 3. Kinky Quatrains: The Making of Muse & Drudge; 4. Telegraphs from a Distracted Sibyl; 5. If Lilies are Lily White: From the Stain of Miscegenation in Stein's "Melanctha" to the "Clean Mixture" of White and Color in Tender Buttons; 6. Nine Syllables Label Sylvia: Reading Plath's "Metaphors"; 7. Evaluation of an Unwritten Poem: Wislawa Szymborska in the Dialogue of Creative and Critical Thinkers; 8. Theme for the Oulipians ; 9. When He Is Least Himself: Paul Laurence Dunbar and Double Consciousness in African American Poetry 10. Truly Unruly Julie: The Innovative Rule-Breaking Poetry of Julie Patton; 11. All Silence Says Music Will Follow: Listening to Lorenzo Thomas; 12. The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be: Stretching the Dialogue of African American Poetry; II. Longer Essays; 13. African Signs and Spirit Writing; 14. Runaway Tongue: Resistant Orality in Uncle Tom's Cabin, Our Nig, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and Beloved ; 15. Optic White: Blackness and the Production of Whiteness 16. Phantom Pain: Nathaniel Mackey's Bedouin Hornbook; 17. A Collective Force of Burning Ink: Will Alexander's Asia & Haiti; 18. Incessant Elusives: The Oppositional Poetics of Erica Hunt and Will Alexander; III. Interviews; 19. "The Solo Mysterioso Blues": An Interview with Harryette Mullen by Calvin Bedient; 20. An Interview with Harryette Mullen by Daniel Kane; 21. An Interview with Harryette Mullen by Elisabeth A. Frost; 22. An Interview with Harryette Mullen by Cynthia Hogue ; 23. "I Dream a World": A Conversation with Harryette Mullen by Nibir K. GhoshBibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: "The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be forms an extended consideration not only of Harryette Mullen's own work, methods, and interests as a poet, but also of issues of central importance to African American poetry and language, women's voices, and the future of poetry"--
• Titolo autorizzato: The cracks between what we are and what we are supposed to be
• ISBN: 0-8173-8617-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785790403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Modern & Contemporary Poetics