Unfinished Spirit: Muriel Rukeyser's Twentieth Century - Couverture souple

Kennedy-Epstein, Rowena

 
9781501778773: Unfinished Spirit: Muriel Rukeyser's Twentieth Century
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ISBN 10 : 1501778773 ISBN 13 : 9781501778773
Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Winner of the Matei Calinescu Prize

In Unfinished Spirit, Rowena Kennedy-Epstein brings to light the extraordinary archive of Muriel Rukeyser's (1913-1980) unpublished and incomplete literary works, revealing the ways in which misogyny influences the kinds of texts we read and value. Despite her status today as an influential poet, much of Rukeyser's critical and feminist writing remained unfinished, suppressed by the sexism of editors, political censure, the withdrawal of funding and publishing contracts, as well the conditions of single motherhood and economic precarity.

From Savage Coast, her novel of the Spanish Civil War (which Kennedy-Epstein recovered, edited, and published to great acclaim in 2013) to her photo-text collaboration with Berenice Abbott, essays on women writers, radio scripts, and biographies, Unfinished Spirit traces the creation, reception, and rejection of Rukeyser's most ambitious texts--works that continued the radical, avant-garde project of modernism and challenged an increasingly hegemonic Cold War culture. Bound together by Rukeyser's radical vision of artistic creation and political engagement, these incomplete texts open a space to theorize the politics of the unfinished for understanding women's artistic production, reasserting the importance of the archive as a primary site of feminist criticism.

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À propos de l'auteur

Rowena Kennedy-Epstein is Professor of gender studies and twentieth- and twenty-first-century women's writing at the University of Bristol. She is the coeditor of The Muriel Rukeyser Era and author of a forthcoming biography of Rukeyser, Mother of Us All. Follow her on X at @rowena_k_e.

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Éditeur
Cornell University Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1501778773
ISBN 13 
9781501778773
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
228
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