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Pitfalls of prestige : Black women and literary recognition / Laura Elizabeth Vrana.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vrana, Laura, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dove, Rita--Criticism and interpretation.
- Dove, Rita.
- Alexander, Elizabeth, 1962---Criticism and interpretation.
- Alexander, Elizabeth.
- Obadike, Mendi Lewis, 1973---Criticism and interpretation.
- Obadike, Mendi Lewis.
- Trethewey, Natasha D., 1966---Criticism and interpretation.
- Trethewey, Natasha D.
- Rankine, Claudia, 1963---Criticism and interpretation.
- Rankine, Claudia.
- Philip, Marlene Nourbese, 1947---Criticism and interpretation.
- Philip, Marlene Nourbese.
- African American women poets.
- American poetry--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- American poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Place of Publication:
- Ohio State University Press 2024
- Summary:
- "Examines how Black women poets, including Rita Dove, Elizabeth Alexander, Mendi Obadike, Natasha Trethewey, Claudia Rankine, and M. NourbeSe Philip, are positioned within and outside of the academy, considering how developments in American literary institutions since 1980, as well as literary prizes, can co-opt or constrain the work rather than promote inclusion"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Remembering the (re)generations of Black women's poetics
- The color of prestige
- Navigating the ivory tower
- Interlude
- Text, performance, and embodiment
- Experiments in lyric
- Historical experiments in representing slavery
- Coda: Graywolf and the "post"(-Citizen) era?
- ISBN:
- 0-8142-8394-2
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