The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry offers a historical and theoretical account of avant-garde women poets in America from the 1910s through the 1990s. Elisabeth Frost focuses on a diverse group of poets--Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, Sonia...
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The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry offers a historical and theoretical account of avant-garde women poets in America from the 1910s through the 1990s. Elisabeth Frost focuses on a diverse group of poets--Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, Sonia Sanchez, Susan Howe, and Harryette Mullen--who make language the site of feminist politics. Her study captures the range of aesthetics and politics in the work of avant-garde women poets; challenges the ways in which avant-garde writing has been defined and categorized; expands traditional conceptions of feminism and feminist poetics; and addresses issu
Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Women Poets and the Historical Avant-Gardes; 1. "Replacing the Noun": Fetishism, Parody, and Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons; 2. "Crisis in Consciousness": Mina Loy's "Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose"; Part II. Agendas of Race and Gender; 3. "a fo / real / revolu/shun": Sonia Sanchez and the Black Arts Movement; Part III. Traditions of Marginality; 4. "Unsettling" America: Susan Howe and Antinomian Tradition; 5. "Belatedly Beladied Blues": Hybrid Traditions in the Poetry of Harryette Mullen; Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Permissions; Index;
