Race and time : American women's poetics from antislavery to racial modernity / by Janet Gray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gray, Janet (Women's studies professor)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American poetry.

Race in literature.

Literature and history--United States--History--19th century.

Literature and history.

Women and literature--United States--History--19th century.

Women and literature.

American poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

Antislavery movements in literature.

African Americans in literature.

Race relations in literature.

Slavery in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; 1. Wrappings: A Methodological Introduction; 2. Contesting the Pearl: Whiteness, Blackness, and the Possessionof American Poetry2; II ANTEBELLUM; 3. "Skins May Differ": Women's Republicanism and the Poeticsof Abolitionism; 4. The Mummy Returns: Humor, Kinship, and the Bindings of Print; III POSTBELLUM; 5. Looking in the Glass: Sarah Piatt's Poetics of Play and Loss; 6. We Women Radicals: Frances Harper's Poetics of Racial Formation; 7. What One Is Not Was: Mary Eliza Tucker Lambert's Poetics ofSelf-Reconstruction

8. Critical Positions in Racial Modernity: An Approach to TeachingIV OTHER TIMESChildhood and Nonsense; 9. The Containment of Childhood: Reproducing Consumption in AmericanChildren's Verse; APPENDIX: Poems Cited; Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, The Kneeling Slave; Sarah Louise Forten, An Appeal to Women; Frances E. W. Harper, The Slave Mother; Hannah Flagg Gould, The Slave Mother's Prayer; Hannah Flagg Gould, The Child's Address to the Kentucky Mummy; Sarah Piatt, A Child's Party; Frances Harper, Aunt Chloe; Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert, Loew's Bridge, a Broadway Idyl

Anonymous, The Three Little KittensSarah Josepha Hale, Mary's Lamb; Mary Mapes Dodge, Shepherd John; Mary Mapes Dodge, The Way to Do It; Hannah Flagg Gould, Apprehension; Mary Mapes Dodge, The Wooden Horse; Hannah Flagg Gould, The Butterfly's Dream; Mary Mapes Dodge, The Mayor Of Scuttleton; Lizzie W. Champney, How Persimmons Took Cah ob der Baby; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-319) and index.

ISBN:

9781587294808

158729480X

OCLC:

66394083