Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934

by Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Book Overview

In Genders, Races and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetries, Rachel Blau Duplessis shows how, through poetic language, modernist writers represented the debates and ideologies concerning New Woman, New Negro and New Jew in the early twentieth century. From the poetic text emerge such social issues of modernity as debates on suffrage, sexuality, manhood, and African-American and Jewish subjectivities. By a reading method she calls 'social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521483352
• ISBN13: 9780521483353
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"