The essay explores the legacy of Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born, whose characteristic fusion of personal recollection with social critique anticipates succeeding critical/theoretical developments in women's writing. Illustrating how the deconstruction of the idea(l) of motherhood in Rich’s essay is strictly tied to the author’s complex positioning as a white ethnic poet/writer/lesbian/feminist, the essay investigates the effect(s) of positing a non-canonical, culturally specific, and politically inflected representation of motherhood as an (inter)subject of autobiography.
Vellucci, S. (2015). Writing Otherwise: The Mother's "I" in Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born. In M.M. Cristina Giorcelli (a cura di), M/Other. Scansioni di alterità (pp. 149-166). Napoli : Guida.
Writing Otherwise: The Mother's "I" in Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born
VELLUCCI, SABRINA
2015-01-01
Abstract
The essay explores the legacy of Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born, whose characteristic fusion of personal recollection with social critique anticipates succeeding critical/theoretical developments in women's writing. Illustrating how the deconstruction of the idea(l) of motherhood in Rich’s essay is strictly tied to the author’s complex positioning as a white ethnic poet/writer/lesbian/feminist, the essay investigates the effect(s) of positing a non-canonical, culturally specific, and politically inflected representation of motherhood as an (inter)subject of autobiography.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
