WEEK 10: American Poetry
The Feminist Voice
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The turbulence of the 1960's spawned two decades
of stocktaking by many who came to see themselves as somehow maligned and
intimidated by classism, racism, and sexism. "Feminism" became a
term for a period of female consciousness-raising about the traditional
roles of women, their social status, and their potential for change and
the improvement of their lots in society. Expectedly, the literature
of the period, with roots in such ground breaking work as in the writings
of Gilman in "The Yellow Wall-Paper" and Kate Chopin in "The Awakening,"
became a mechanism for both new feminist expression and interpretations.
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Textual Readings:
Adrienne Rich
"At a Bach Concert"
"Living in Sin"
"Mother-in-Law"
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Denise Levertov
"The
Ache of Marriage"
"O
Taste and See"
"Abel's
Bride"
"Mad
Song"
"A
Hunger"
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Anne Sexton
"The
Farmer's Wife"
"All
My Pretty Ones"
"The
Addict"
"Us"
"Rowing"
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Sylvia Plath
"All
the Dead Dears"
"Two
Views of a Cadaver Room"
"The
Bee Meeting"
"Lady
Lazarus"
"Daddy"
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Sonia Sanchez
"the
final solution/"
"to
blk/record/buyers"
"young/black/girl"
"Just
Don't Never Give Up on Love"
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Rita Dove
"Jiving"
"The
Zeppelin Factory"
""Weathering
Out"
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American Poet Sylvia
Plath
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Writing Assignment for Week 10:
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