"Reorienting understandings of Adrienne Rich's later work through her interest in Marx and Marxist politics, this book engages with this overlooked part of her oeuvre through considerations of issues such as race, nationhood, and gender"--
Reorienting understandings of Adrienne Rich's later work through her interest in Marx and Marxist politics, this book engages with this overlooked part of her oeuvre through considerations of issues such as race, nationhood, and gender.
From 1983 onward, after she visited revolutionary Nicaragua until the end of her life, Rich's political vision can best be described as Marxist-Humanist. Until recently, very little attention has been paid to Rich's interest in Marx; there is no in-depth treatment of the effect of Marx's humanistic philosophy on Rich's later work, or even on her unwavering, but altered dedication to Women's Liberation. This book fills this gap, showing how Rich's discovery of Marx's humanism affected her poetry. In doing so, it makes a significant intervention into debates about the direction of American poetics and argues powerfully for a greater consciousness of political engagement through poetry.
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Written in an open and eloquent style, this book makes a significant intervention into debates about the direction of American poetics, and argues powerfully for a greater consciousness of political engagement through the genre. -- Steven Matthews, Professor of English Literature, University of Reading, UK
Papildus informācija
Reorienting understandings of Adrienne Richs later work through her excitement about Marx and Marxist politics, this book engages with the results of this excitement, through considerations of issues including race, nationhood, and gender.
Foreword
Chapter 1: I Long Ago Moved On: Adrienne Rich, Raya Dunayevskaya and
Marxist-Humanism
Chapter 2: Marxist Humanism, Freedom and Raya Dunayevskaya
Chapter 3: Adrienne Rich Feeling Contradictions Nicaragua, and Your Native
Land, Your Life.
Chapter 4: In Quest of America: The Dialectical Dimensions of An Atlas of
the Difficult World
Chapter 5:
Chapter Five: Suffering in the Heart of Capital: Dark Fields of
the Republic
Chapter 6: American Innocence, the German Guilt Question and the Oslo Peace
Process.
Chapter 7: The End of History and the Forgotten Future: Rich vs.
Neoliberalism
Chapter 8: Fox: Terza Rima and the End of History
Chapter 9: Salvaging Midnight Salvage
Chapter 10: Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Draft #2006 An American
Jeremiad
Chapter 11: 9/11 and The School Among the Ruins: Tendril
Chapter 12: Rich in the Borderlands: Late Style and Her World of Pain
Bibliography
Alec Marsh is Professor of English at Muhlenberg College, Pennsylvania, USA.
