Unfinished Spirit

Muriel Rukeyser's Twentieth Century

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Rowena Kennedy-Epstein

Verlag:

Cornell University Press

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: KQ8DK8N

EAN: 9781501778773

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Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Mo, 03.08.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 39.50

Beschreibung

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 , Rowena Kennedy-Epstein brings to light the extraordinary archive of Muriel Rukeyser's (1913-1980) unpublished and incomplete literary works, revealing the ways in which misogyny influences the kinds of texts we read and value.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.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Rowena Kennedy-Epstein

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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