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Look to your left : a feminist poetics of spectacle / Kristina Marie Darling.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Darling, Kristina Marie, author.
- Series:
- Akron series in contemporary poetics.
- Akron Series in Contemporary Poetics Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry--History and criticism.
- Poetry.
- Feminist poetry--History and criticism.
- Feminist poetry.
- Poetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (141 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Akron, Ohio : The University of Akron Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- The essays in the collection examine, from a variety of perspectives and conceptual standpoints, the ways performative language in contemporary poetry can be politically charged. The poetic text, then, becomes a spectacle, which ultimately renegotiates the power dynamics implicit in the simple act of looking. As the language unfolds before the reader, they are involved and implicated in a revision of what is and what always has been an unequal share of power on the stage of textual authorship and readerly interpretation. In Look to Your Left: A Feminist Poetics of Spectacle, Darling grounds these ambitious theoretical discussions (and interventions) in poetry by women, non-binary writers, and writers of color, with a particular emphasis on texts that have been heretofore undertheorized.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- An Introduction
- Look Again: Redirecting the Gaze
- Victoria Chang's Poetics of Female Spectacle
- Anne Barngrover's Brazen Creature: Southern Masculinities and the Violence of Spectacle
- Surveillance, Metanarrative, &
- the Female Gaze: Solmaz Sharif, Andrew Seguin, &
- Jessica Baran
- The Literary Text as Performance &
- Spectacle: Writing by Virginia Konchan, Barbara Tomash, &
- Julie Doxsee
- "Spare This Body, Set Fire to Another": Silence as Performance &
- Sociopolitical Empowerment
- The Aesthetics of Silence: Ilya Kaminsky's Deaf Republic &
- Donna Stonecipher's Transaction Histories
- "My Heart Was Clean": On the Politically Charged Work of Silence in Poetry
- "Let Her Balance on Nothing": Notes on Victimization, Complicity, and the Gaze
- The Experimental Feminist Text as Event
- The Page as a Visual Field: Asiya Wadud, Gracie Leavitt, &
- Eve L. Ewing
- Modernism &
- the Question of Genre: On Julie Carr's REAL LIFE: an Installation
- The Poetics of Ephemera: Kate Greenstreet, Karla Kelsey, &
- Sarah Ann Winn
- The Violence of Collision: Notes on Collage, Precarity, and the Archive
- The Generative Violence of the Experiment
- "It Takes What Light It Wants": Authority and Rebellion in Feminist Poetry
- Unruly Language:Towards a Poetics of Disruption
- Beyond Metaphor: On Prose by Chris Campanioni &
- Elizabeth A. I. Powell
- On Secrets, Light, &
- the Lyric Imagination: Henry Hoke, Kirsten Kaschock, &
- Matthew Rohrer
- On Collective Acts of Forgetting: Elizabeth Lyons, Lisa Olstein, &
- Carolina Ebeid
- Textual Difficulty as a Feminist Gesture: Laurie Sheck, Sarah Vap, &
- Julia Story
- Textual Difficulty: A Performance of Otherness &
- Difference
- The Poetics of Disbelief
- An Afterword.
- On Being the Spectacle: The Sexualization of Women's Labor in the Small Press
- Textual Violence &
- the Workshop: Responding to Difficult Poetry by Women
- Readerly Privilege &
- Textual Violence: Towards an Ethics of Engagement
- Notes
- Works Cited.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-130) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781629221212
- 162922121X
- OCLC:
- 1342498662
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