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American Hybrid Poetics: Gender, Mass Culture, and Form
Amy Moorman Robbins
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American Hybrid Poetics explores the ways in which hybrid poetics—a playful mixing of disparate formal and aesthetic strategies—have been the driving force in the work of a historically and culturally diverse group of women poets who are part of a robust tradition in contesting the dominant cultural order. Amy Moorman Robbins examines the ways in which five poets—Gertrude Stein, Laura Mullen, Alice Notley, Harryette Mullen, and Claudia Rankine—use hybridity as an implicitly political strategy to interrupt mainstream American language, literary genres, and visual culture, and expose the ways in which mass culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has had ... Read more
American Hybrid Poetics explores the ways in which hybrid poetics—a playful mixing of disparate formal and aesthetic strategies—have been the driving force in the work of a historically and culturally diverse group of women poets who are part of a robust tradition in contesting the dominant cultural order. Amy Moorman Robbins examines the ways in which five poets—Gertrude Stein, Laura Mullen, Alice Notley, Harryette Mullen, and Claudia Rankine—use hybridity as an implicitly political strategy to interrupt mainstream American language, literary genres, and visual culture, and expose the ways in which mass culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has had ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Series
American Literatures Initiative
Number of Pages
188
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813564654
SKU
V9780813564654
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About Amy Moorman Robbins
AMY MOORMAN ROBBINS is an assistant professor of English at Hunter College, CUNY, where she specializes in modern and contemporary experimental poetics with emphasis on the work of women poets. She has published critical essays on the work of Gertrude Stein (Journal of Lesbian Studies), Harryette Mullen (Contemporary Literature), and Alice Notley (Pacific Coast Philology).
Reviews for American Hybrid Poetics: Gender, Mass Culture, and Form
“With layers of richness and historicized depth, American Hybrid Poetics makes a distinct contribution to the field. Robbins’s lively writing and strong critical voice are splendid.”
Linda Kinnahan
Duquesne University
"An incisive study of a hotly-debated term in U.S. poetry today, American Hybrid Poetics reveals how women’s hybrid forms converse with, and subvert, the gendered tropes of ... Read more
Linda Kinnahan
Duquesne University
"An incisive study of a hotly-debated term in U.S. poetry today, American Hybrid Poetics reveals how women’s hybrid forms converse with, and subvert, the gendered tropes of ... Read more