Unfinished spirit : Muriel Rukeyser's twentieth century / Rowena Kennedy-Epstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennedy-Epstein, Rowena, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

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

Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-1980--Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Looks at Muriel Rukeyser's unfinished and unpublished projects--from her lost novel Savage Coast, to her photo-text collaboration with Berenice Abbott, to her essays on women writers-to challenge the supremacy of an androcentric literary history and examine the ways gender informs the production and reception of texts written by women"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: waste/archives/feminism

Costa Brava

Her symbol was civil war: recovering Savage Coast

Mother of exiles: Spanish Civil War writing

Bad influence and willful subjects: the life of poetry, "many keys,"

and Sunday at nine

So easy to see: Rukeyser and Berenice Abbott's lost collaboration

Pillars of process: Franz Boas, birth, and Indigenous thought

Conclusion: the Rukeyser era.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501778773

1501778773

9781501762345

1501762346

OCLC:

1260167046