American Hybrid Poetics: Gender, Mass Culture, and Form

"This book is the first to study American hybrid poetics in any depth and it is groundbreaking in foregrounding the work of women poets as leaders in this movement rather than also-rans. It is also the first book to position hybridity as a formal and political aesthetic strategy that has a history in the modernist experimentation of Gertrude Stein. At the same time, the book is one of few studies that argues for the relevance of mass culture to feminist experimental art; in this, the book follows a path laid out by Johanna Drucker and Susan Suleiman. Crucially, and at the dawn of a new era in poetry studies, the book argues forcefully against post-Language era political poets who are openly hostile to the idea of hybrid aesthetics in poetry on the grounds that it is a bland, a-political aesthetic, at the same time that the book argues that the work of the poets studied here reveals far greater depth and dimension to the concept of hybridity than critics have acknowledged"--

Author(s): Amy Moorman Robbins
Publisher: American Literatures Initiativ
Published: 2014
Categories: Literary Criticism