Decolonize or Destroy
New Feminist Poetry in the United States and Canada
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12247336 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amy Susan De'Ath (0000-0002-4567-4397, English and Foreign Languages University, corresponding author), Amy De'Ath |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 285-305 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women a Cultural Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0957-4042 • E-ISSN: 1470-1367 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09574042.2015.1069140 |
| OpenAlex | W2317048193 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
This essay points to techniques and strategies in contemporary feminist poetry that primarily seek not to resist or critique frameworks of white supremacy or capitalist imperialism, but to begin from coordinates that, experientially and historically, do not align with the striations of historical time mirrored and institutionalized by these frameworks. The author argues that Marie Annharte Baker’s and Dawn Lundy Martin’s poems not only orient themselves antagonistically against the very concrete, physical violence of structural domination in the context of histories of slavery and genocide; they also understand that today, as always, ascriptive processes of racialization function to make structural inequality appear inevitable and fair. As such, the author proposes that it is possible to read a lateral solidarity across the work of Annharte and Martin in their joint rejection of the liberal politics of recognition, and through the transformative possibilities of aesthetic experience highlighted by their work, where the material antagonisms structuring contemporary social relations emerge aesthetically too. The author suggests, however, that the object of transformation in Annharte’s and Martin’s poems is not a ‘thing’, but mediation, given that these works attempt to interrogate and undermine the psycho-affective attachments that, through a contemporary discourse of recognition, actually serve to reproduce colonial structures of domination. In making this claim, the author underlines the ways in which the antagonisms in their work are constitutively and formally different, while in both cases showing how a position of antagonism can be transformative, and potentially revolutionary, in itself
Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Transformative learning · American Literature and Culture · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |