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Humanities, 2021 Between 1845–1849, twelve enslaved women in Montgomery, Alabama lived through prolonged, gynecologic experimentation at the hands of Dr. James Marion Sims.
Rachel Dudley
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Coping With Canon/Canons: Women Poets and the Literary Context
Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2015 The aim of this paper is to revisit literary canon, focusing on some of the most relevant texts and books that have been published within the corpus of Anglo-American studies. Then our attention is shifted to the works of American women authors and their
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Latin American Literary Review, 2021 Krisma Mancía (1980, El Salvador) is one of the most promising members of the postwar generation of young Salvadoran poets. Like Jacinta Escudos, Claudia Hernández and Vanessa Núñez Handal in prose, Krisma Mancía breaks free of the taboos still found ...
Raquel Patricia Chiquillo
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“Priestess or sacrifice?” Domestic Tasks and Poetic Craft in Eavan Boland’s poetry
ABEI Journal, 2022 This article looks at the relationship between housework and poetry in Eavan Boland’s poetry. Like many other women poets of her generation, Boland had an ambivalent relationship to the domestic, as she was well aware of the dangerous tendency to confine
Virginie Trachsler
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Déjà Vu: Shirley Kaufman’s Poetry on Biblical Women
Religions, 2019 This article explores Shirley Kaufman’s reading of the Bible as an elaboration on/of its feminine characters via three devices: (a) Dramatic monologues, in which the woman speaks for herself (“Rebecca” and “Leah”); (b ...
Anat Koplowitz-Breier
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Personal Geographies: Poetic Lineage of American Poets Elizabeth Coatsworth and Kate Barnes
ELOPE, 2016 This paper examines the relationship between two 20th-century American poets, Elizabeth Coatsworth and her daughter, Kate Barnes. Both women mined their physical and personal geographies to create their work; both labored in the shadows of domineering ...
Ellen Maureen Taylor
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Ticontre: Teoria Testo Traduzione, 2014 The essay explores the impact of poetry translation on the circulation of the works of American poets in Italy. The research is conducted by means of a double approach: in the first place, the aesthetic and cultural value of the poetry of two American ...
Paola Loreto
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“Continental Drift”: Translation and Kimiko Hahn’s Transcultural Poetry
Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2012 In the context of the expanding discourse of transnational Asian American Studies, this essay studies Kimiko Hahn, particularly her engagement with East Asian traditions in her poetry, and shows how her work exemplifies a transcultural Asian American ...
Xiwen Mai
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Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2017 Mina Loy and Diane di Prima’s experimental poetic contributions to their early “situational avant-gardes” (the 1910s Modernists and late 1950s Beats in New York) vindicated the relation of gender and experiment within their countercultural movements ...
Isabel Castelao-Gómez
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Marmoreal Sisterhoods: Classical Statuary in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing
19, 2016 This article examines the deployment of statuary in nineteenth-century women’s poetry. It considers the importance of classical sculpture in the work of the Romantic writer Felicia Hemans before proceeding to examine its significance in poems by later ...
Patricia Pulham
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