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Contributions in Women's Studies: White Women Writing White : H. D. , Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and Whiteness by Renee R. Curry (2000, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10031331019X
ISBN-139780313310195
eBay Product ID (ePID)19038258984
Product Key Features
Number of Pages200 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameWhite Women Writing White : H. D. , Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and Whiteness
Publication Year2000
SubjectWomen Authors, General, Poetry, American / General
TypeTextbook
AuthorRenee R. Curry
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
SeriesContributions in Women's Studies
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight16.4 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN99-021706
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"White Women Writing is an important book for feminist teachers and scholars of women's poetry, and I won't teach these poets again without it." NWSA Journal, "...this book, by "shed[ding] a stark light on [the] whiteness" that permeates the study of all things American, may help begin the process of peeling back those cultural accoutrements." JASAT
Series Volume NumberVol. 175
Number of Volumes1 vol.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal811/.5099287
Table Of ContentIntroduction: "A Poetics of Presumption" "Minute Granules on a White Thread": H.D. and a Masterful Whiteness "A Sort of Inheritance; White": Elizabeth Bishop and Selective Self-Reflection on Whiteness "White: It Is a Complexion of the Mind": The Enactment of Whiteness in Sylvia Plath's Poetry Conclusion Works Cited Index
SynopsisJust as the cultural background of readers shapes how they respond to texts, the context in which writers live shapes what they write. When a context is dominant within a culture, the effects of that context upon an author may be taken for granted and thus overlooked. Race is a powerful factor in shaping literary works. Literature by black writers, for example, often reflects the experiences of African Americans. At the same time, though perhaps less obviously, literature by white writers may similarly reflect the experience of being white. This book argues that H.D., Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath wrote from an unproclaimed dominant white perspective that becomes evident in their poetry. Loosely delineated, writing white constitutes writing authored from an acknowledged or unacknowledged white perspective; writing that implies or explicitly delivers the concept of whiteness to a text; writing that remains unconcerned with white racial politics internal and external to the text; and writing that uses the word white to maintain ideological systems of mastery and dichotomy. This book examines numerous poems in terms of whiteness. Each chapter places one poet in the larger context of historical and cultural racial events prevalent during the time of her writing and explores the particular poems created and published during that period.
LC Classification NumberPS173
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