Politics of Feminist Revision in di Prima's Loba

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Intertextuality in Diane di Prima’s Loba: Religious Discourse and Feminism

“…Although this collection is not her main focus of attention, Quinn notes how Loba draws "from many myths, cosmologies, philosophies" (p. 28), which often create a complex web of intertextual references, beginning with the title itself and its connections to "the she-wolf of Roman mythology" (p. 27), but also "the Mexican 'la loba', or bone woman, collector of wolf bones who represents the reverse cycle of life from grandmother to mother to laughing maiden" (p. 28). With a clearer focus on feminist revisionism, Mackay (2016) reads Loba in the specific light of second-wave feminist revisions of mythology, expanding her analysis to also include di Prima's critique and revision of women's literature through the example of H.D., a major influence in di Prima and a strong presence in Loba. On a similar note, Nancy M. Grace and Tony Trigilio have recently explored the Greco-Roman allusions within Loba, connecting these with the poet's "own identity as a female Buddhist poet of the modern age" (p. 226).…”