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Jayne Cortez, Adrienne Rich, and the Feminist Superhero : Voice, Vision, Politics, and Performance in U.S. Contemporary Women's Poetics by Laura Hinton; Renee M. Kingan; Linda Kinnahan; Deborah Mix; Kirsten Bartholomew Ortega; Conor Tomas Reed; Jennifer D. Ryan-Bryant; Ellen McGrath Smith; Linda Stein is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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One a lyric "confessional" poet and essayist, the other a jazz "spoken-word" performance artist, Adrienne Rich and Jayne Cortez were American feminist superheroes who produced extensive bodies of poetic work that reveal strangely overlapping visions, but in radically different voices and poetic styles. This book reconsiders the poetry activism of Cortez and Rich side-by-side, engaging poetics theory, cultural studies, and popular media in its literary analyses. A collection of eight integrated chapters by multiple poetry critics, as well as an artist-statement narrative by Wonder Woman sculptor Linda Stein, the book focuses upon the voice of bravado, the various calls for global justice, and Third Wave feminist "intersectional" critiques all embodied within these two women's poetic texts. The book also examines the twentieth-century figure of the American superhero, particularly Wonder Woman, bringing popular-culture studies into conversation with literary criticism, as well as visual art through the inclusion of Stein's commentary and illustrations. This beautiful and compelling book experiments with the festschrift concept by inviting multiple and competing disciplinary views on
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- Author
- Laura Hinton; Renee M. Kingan; Linda Kinnahan; Deborah Mix; Kirsten Bartholomew Ortega; Conor Tomas Reed; Jennifer D. Ryan-Bryant; Ellen McGrath Smith; Linda Stein
- Publisher
- Lexington Books/Fortress Academic; Lexington Books
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781498528740
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Science, Poetry
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