Her kind
Anne Sexton, the Cold War and the idea of the housewife
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20261441 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clare Pollard (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1-24 |
| Publication date | 2006-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-1562 • E-ISSN: 1467-8705 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-8705.2006.00715.x |
| OpenAlex | W1997494175 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
As a key figure of the 'Confessional' movement, Anne Sexton's work has often been critically assessed only in relation to her life ‐ her history of mental illness and eventual suicide. This article attempts to place Sexton's poetry back into its historical context, arguing that with American suburbia being viewed as a new 'home front' during the Cold War, the persona of 'Housewife‐poet' that Sexton adopted was highly politically charged. Seizing the language of pop‐culture ‐ from advertising to sci‐fi ‐ Sexton used it to expose the nightmare behind the white picket fence, and deconstruct the carefully constructed propaganda of the American housewife
Art · Art history · Confessional · Context (archaeology) · Housewife · Humanities · Literature · Nightmare · Persona · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Relation (database) · Sociology · White (mutation) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Gender Studies · History · Law · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Psychology · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |