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American Hybrid Poetics - Gender, Mass Culture, and Form (Paperback)
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American Hybrid Poetics - Gender, Mass Culture, and Form (Paperback)
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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 a powerfully standardising impact on
the collective American imagination. By forcing encounters between
incompatible traditions - consumer culture with the avant-garde,
low culture forms with experimental poetics, prose poetry with
linguistic subversiveness - these poets bring together radically
competing ideologies and highlight their implications for lived
experience. Robbins argues that it is precisely because these poets
have mixed forms that their work has gone largely unnoticed by
leading members and critics in experimental poetry circles. Robbins
shows that while these poets employ widely varying linguistic
strategies and topical range, they share a common and deeply
critical vision of American popular culture as it promulgates
bourgeois capitalist and imperialist values and forecloses
possibilities for independent thought and creative resistance. They
also share the view that contemporary history can be reimagined in
intellectually liberating ways through hybrid poetics.
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