Rowena Kennedy-Epstein

Unfinished Spirit

Muriel Rukeyser's Twentieth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

"Looks at Muriel Rukeyser's unfinished and unpublished projects--from her lost novel Savage Coast, to her photo-text collaboration with Berenice Abbott, to her essays on women writers-to challenge the supremacy of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"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781501762321
• ISBN-10: 150176232X
• Artikelnr.: 61932134

Autorenporträt

Rowena Kennedy-Epstein is Associate Professor of gender studies and twentieth- and twenty-first-century women's writing at the University of Bristol. She is the coeditor of The Muriel Rukeyser Era and author of a forthcoming biography of Rukeyser, Mother of Us All. Follow her on X at @rowena_k_e.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Waste/Archives/Feminism
Part I: Novel Proliferations: The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1974
1. Costa Brava
2. Her Symbol Was Civil War: Recovering Savage Coast
3. Mother of Exiles: Spanish Civil War Writing
Part II: Being Process Itself: Feminism, Collaboration, and Influence
4. Bad Influence and Willful Subjects: The Life of Poetry, "Many Keys," and
Sunday at Nine
5. So Easy to See: The Unfinished Collaboration with Berenice Abbott
6. Pillars of Process: Franz Boas, Birth, and Indigenous Thought
Conclusion: The Rukeyser Era