On lies, secrets, and silence : selected prose, 1966-1978 / Adrienne Rich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American prose literature--20th century.

American prose literature.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

310 pages ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Norton, 1995.

Summary:

One of America's foremost poets and feminist theorists collect here some of her most important early prose writings. On Lies, Secrets, and Silence is an extraordinary sort of travel diary, documenting Adrienne Rich's journeys to the frontier and into the interior. It traces the development of one individual consciousness, 'playing over such issues as motherhood, racism, history, poetry, the uses of scholarship, the politics of language.' Rich has written a headnote for each essay, briefly discussing the circumstances of its writing.

Contents:

Foreword: On history, illiteracy, passivity, violence, and women's culture

Tensions of Anne Bradstreet (1966)

When we dead awaken: Writing as re-vision (1971)

Teaching language in open admissions (1972)

Antifeminist Woman (1972)

Woman observing, preserving, conspiring, surviving: Poems of Eleanor Ross Taylor (1972)

Jane Eyre: Temptations of a motherless woman (1973)

Caryatid: Two columns (1973)

I: Vietnam and sexual violence

II: Natalya Gorbanevskaya

Anne Sexton: 1928-1974 (1974)

Toward a woman-centered university (1973-74)

Vesuvius at home: Power of Emily Dickinson (1975)

Women and honor: Some notes on lying (1975)

Motherhood in Bondage (1976)

"It is the lesbian in us ..." (1976)

Conditions for work: Common world of women (1976)

Husband-right and father-right (1977)

Meaning of our love for women is what we have constantly to expand (1977)

Claiming an education (1977)

Taking women students seriously (1978)

Power danger: Works of a common woman (1977)

Motherhood: Contemporary emergency quantum leap (1978)

Disloyal to civilization: Feminism, racism, gynephobia (1978).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Reprint of 1980 edition.

ISBN:

0393312852

9780393312850

OCLC:

32886500