| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 269 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Latino and Latin American profiles
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Latino and Latin American profiles.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-256) and index. |
| Contents |
Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One: A Feeling, A Beat, and An Image; Two: Genealogies of Sensibility; Three: Locations of Identity: Craft, Ethnicity, and Americanness; Four: Multicultural Imperatives, Difference, and American Promise; Five: Quiet Revolution: Domesticity and Creation Stories; Six: The Spirit in the Wound: Decaying Bodies and Poetic Thanatopsis; Seven: Toward a Critical Consensus; Eight: Ever-Widening Circles: A Poetics of Inclusion; Works Cited; Index. |
| Summary |
The Once and Future Muse presents the first major study of the life and work of Dominican-born bilingual American poet and translator Rhina P. Espaillat (b. 1932). Beginning with her literary celebrity as the youngest poet ever inducted into the Poetry Society of America, it traces her relative obscurity after 1952 when she married and took on family and employment responsibilities, to her triumphant return to the poetry spotlight decades later when she reclaimed her former prestige with a series of award-winning poetry collections. The authors define Espaillat's place in American letters with attention to her formalist aesthetics, Hispanic Caribbean immigrant background, poetic community building, bilingual ethos, and domestically minded woman-of-color feminism. Addressing the temporality of her oeuvre--her publishing before and after the splitting of American literature into distinct ethnic segments--this work also highlights the demands that the social transformations of the 1960s placed on literary artists, critics, and readers alike. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Espaillat, Rhina P. (Rhina Polonia), 1932- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Espaillat, Rhina P. (Rhina Polonia), 1932- |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Women poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Women poets, American. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Poets, American. |
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Bilingual authors -- United States -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Bilingual authors. |
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Torres-Saillant, Silvio, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kang, Nancy, 1977- Once and future muse. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018] 9780822965428 (OCoLC)1016026412 |
| ISBN |
9780822983484 (electronic book) |
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0822983486 (electronic book) |
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9780822965428 |
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0822965429 |
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