Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934

Bibliographic Data

ID5841218
AuthorsRachel Blau Duplessis (corresponding author)
Year2001
Publication date2001-01-11
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueGenders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934 (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511549632
OpenAlexW1565367616
Open LibraryOL34443109M
ISBN9780511549632
LanguageEN
Citations received16

In Genders, Races and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetries, Rachel Blau Duplessis shows how, through poetic language, modernist writers represented the debates and ideologies concerning New Woman, New Negro and New Jew in the early twentieth century. From the poetic text emerge such social issues of modernity as debates on suffrage, sexuality, manhood, and African-American and Jewish subjectivities. By a reading method she calls 'social philology' - a form of close reading inflected with the approaches of cultural studies - Duplessis engages with the work of such canonical poets as Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore and H. D., as well as Mina Loy, Countee Cullen, Alfred Kreymborg and Langston Hughes, writers, she claims, still marginalized by existing constructions of modernism. This book is an ambitious attempt to remap our understanding of modern poetries and poetics, and the relationship between early twentieth-century writing and society

American poetry · Modernism · Poetics · Poetry Analysis and Criticism

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