The politics of asking women's questions: Voice and value in the poetry of Adrienne Rich

Strine, Mary S.

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“…Adriene Rich also claimed that motivation for self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity. Strine (1989) maintains that it is equal to the refusal of self-destructiveness in a male-dominated society. Earlier works of Rich, Plath, and Sexton were in the traditional and acceptable style, and those were well structured, following the normative rules.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Meaning-Making Process and Aesthetic Response in Sylvia Plath’s Selected Poems

Ahmad¹,

Khalid²

2022

J. manag. pract. humanit I am. sci

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This paper intends to investigate the meaning-making process in Sylvia Plath's poetry by employing Wolfgang's theory of Aesthetic Reader Response. Since female writing is characterized by a strong emotional appeal, especially for a female reader, the research is an attempt to explore the meaning-making process in Plath's poetry that how and why it (female writing) is appealing to the female reader in particular, and to the male reader in general. The analysis is anchored within Wolfgang Iser's theory of Aesthetic Reader Response. His theory postulates that the importance of literary work does not entirely lie in the meaning that the text beholds within it; instead, it depends on the interaction of the text with the reader that is helpful in the establishment of a new meaning. The present paper attempts to reveal this ideal relationship between a female poet and a female reader in the meaning-making process. The research uses a descriptive cum analytical method. Since the study intends to explore and investigate the aesthetic appeal and response that the profoundly emotional poetry of Sylvia evokes in the reader, the linguistic and stylistic choices will remain the focus. So, the research, at times, falls into the category of stylistic analysis. This article demonstrates how a female writer/poet offers a crucial understanding of the relationship between 'ecriture feminine' and the emergence of meaning. The research will provide future researchers with an opportunity to explore the meaning-making process in 􀅫ictional work by female authors from the standpoint of female readers.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Meaning-Making Process and Aesthetic Response in Sylvia Plath’s Selected Poems

Ahmad¹,

Khalid²

2022

J. manag. pract. humanit I am. sci

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“…Poets can use their work to give voice to gendered experiences as a form of political activity and consciousness-raising (Reed [2005] 2013). Strine (1989) notes, "poetic discourse is quintessentially a site of personal and ideological struggle within the on-going cultural dialogue" (p. 26). Poetry as research method is one means to theorize using the body and to disavow the mind-body split still present in much academic work.…”

Section: Feminist Poetry and Embodimentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Crank up the Feminism: Poetic Inquiry as Feminist Methodology

Faulkner

2018

Humanities

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In this autoethnographic essay, the author argues for the use of poetic inquiry as a feminist methodology by showing her use of poetry as research method during the past 13 years. Through examples of her poetic inquiry work, the author details how poetry as research offers Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies scholars a means of doing, showing, and teaching embodiment and reflexivity, a way to refuse the mind-body dialectic, a form of feminist ethnography, and a catalyst for social agitation and change. The author uses examples of her ethnographic poetry that critique middle-class White motherhood, address the problems of White feminism, and reflects the nuances of identity negotiation in research and personal life to show the breadth of topics and approaches of poetic inquiry as feminist research practice and feminist pedagogy.

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“…The poet's use of personal experience creates something larger from the particular; the concrete specifics become universal when the audience relates to, embodies, and/or experiences the work as if it were their own words (Faulkner, in press). Poetry that gives voice to gendered experiences can be a form of poetic consciousness-raising, a distinct form of political activity (Strine, 1989). As Strine (1989) Eat from these plates full of butterfly parts, all of these vaginas and all of this smart.…”

Section: Poetry Is Feminist Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Poetry that gives voice to gendered experiences can be a form of poetic consciousness-raising, a distinct form of political activity (Strine, 1989). As Strine (1989) Eat from these plates full of butterfly parts, all of these vaginas and all of this smart.…”

Section: Poetry Is Feminist Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Poetry is Politics

Faulkner¹

2017

International Review of Qualitative Research

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Through an autoethnographic poetry manifesto, the author makes the case for poetry as political, poetry as feminist practice, poetry as social research and autoethnography, poetry as the personal that becomes the universal, and poetry as visionary activism. The use of personal poetry engages the political power of poetry to present embodied, nuanced, and myriad scenes of marginalized and stigmatized identities.

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The politics of asking women's questions: Voice and value in the poetry of Adrienne Rich

Cited by 16 publications

References 4 publications

Meaning-Making Process and Aesthetic Response in Sylvia Plath’s Selected Poems

Meaning-Making Process and Aesthetic Response in Sylvia Plath’s Selected Poems

Crank up the Feminism: Poetic Inquiry as Feminist Methodology

Poetry is Politics

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