The feminist avant-garde in American poetry / Elisabeth A. Frost.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frost, Elisabeth A. (Elisabeth Ann), 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Feminism and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Feminism and literature.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--United States--History--20th century.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

American poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.

Experimental poetry, American--History and criticism.

Experimental poetry, American.

Feminist poetry--History and criticism.

Feminist poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 writing has been defined and categorized; expands traditional conceptions of feminism and feminist poetics; and addresses issues

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-225) and index.

ISBN:

1-58729-434-6

OCLC:

772845799