Modernist Women Poets: Generations, Geographies and Genders
A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 November 2019) | Viewed by 51520
Special Issue Editor
Interests: women's poetry; contemporary poetry; postcolonialism; women’s writing; modernism and the 1930s
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Dear Colleagues,
Feminist scholars have crucially proved that female poets count in orthodox categories of High Modernism. We have demonstrated their centrality to intellectual Anglo-American [‘Eliotic’] experimentation that fed into and from the European avant-garde. Into the twentieth-first century, modernist projects shy away from the exclusions of a capitalized monolithic Modernism that was bound by a narrow interwar period, linguistic abstruseness, and masculinized cultural imperialism. Instead, modernist studies have been enriched by pluralizing chronologies, styles, and locations. We now have categorization through generations or a non-periodizing intermodernism, the anti-elitist middlebrow, and postcolonial geomodernisms. Accordingly, this Special Issue aims to discuss poets who enhance the breadth of modernist literary practices while maintaining modernism as a meaningful and identifiable aesthetic. Thus, we shall take as the cohering concept a complex relationship to gender and to modernity that manifests in a self-consciously complex treatment of language. We hope to explore writers across the generations that modernist histories now recognize: Gertrude Stein’s contemporaries, born around the cusp of the twentieth century and flourishing during the 1920s and 1930s; the next generation who came to their peak in the 1950s and include Elizabeth Bishop or Stevie Smith; and the third generation who published into the 1980s. While we welcome new gender-based approaches to the now prominent American innovators, Millay, Moore, HD, Lowell, and Loy, we hope for essays that attend to more explicitly female-centred work of, say, Denise Levertov or Charlotte Mew. We particularly want contributions that delve into intersectional identities and literature beyond the Anglo-American framework, by such writers as Anna Akhmatova, Angelina Weld Grimké or M. NourbeSe Philip. Each essay will take account of recent critical work and illuminate how the poet or poets fashion an aesthetic concerning their lives and professions as women writers in a turbulent time.
Dr. Jane Dowson
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Twentieth-Century Women Poets
- Modernist women writers
- Feminist literature
- Intersectional feminism
- Geomodernism
- Intermodernism
- Middlebrow
- Postcolonial poetry
- Gertrude Stein
- Marianne Moore
- Edna St Vincent Millay
- H.D.
- Mina Loy
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Charlotte Mew
- Denise Levertov
- May Sinclair
- Anna Akhmatova
- Angelina Weld Grimké
- M. NourbeSe Philip
- Edith Sitwell
- Stevie Smith
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