Argues that H.D., Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath wrote from an unproclaimed dominant white perspective that becomes evident in their poetry.
Introduction: "A Poetics of Presumption" "Minute Granules on a White Thread": H.D. and a Masterful Whiteness "A Sort of Inheritance; White": Elizabeth Bishop and Selective Self-Reflection on Whiteness "White: It Is a Complexion of the Mind": The Enactment of Whiteness in Sylvia Plath's Poetry Conclusion Works Cited Index
RENÉE R. CURRY is Associate Professor of Literature and Writing at California State University, San Marcos. She is the editor of Perspectives on Woody Allen (1996) and coeditor of States of Rage: Emotional Eruption, Violence, and Social Change (1996).
"Curry's bracing investigation of poetry and whiteness makes the
previously invisible much easier to see."-David Wyatt University of
Maryland
"Renee Curry's White Women Writing White is an admirably well
researched, independent, brave, and often brilliant and startling
study. It will undoubtedly prove germinal in critical whiteness
studies, an important new sub-field in literary and cultural
studies. This book provides an absolutely new perspective on the
poets Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath.
It draws attention, truly for the first time, to the racial
signifiers in the texts of these three great poets. It treats
whiteness as a marked characteristic in the way that blackness and
Asian-ness have always functioned as marked traits in American
literature and culture. It repeatedly and convincingly locates
racial meanings in passages that have never been read in that light
before. This book transforms the landscape. It is the most
significant new work on these poets in years."-Steven Gould Axelrod
Professor of English, University of California, Riverside
.,."this book, by "shed[ding] a stark light on [the] whiteness"
that permeates the study of all things American, may help begin the
process of peeling back those cultural accoutrements."-JASAT
?...this book, by "shed[ding] a stark light on [the] whiteness"
that permeates the study of all things American, may help begin the
process of peeling back those cultural accoutrements.?-JASAT
?White Women Writing is an important book for feminist teachers and
scholars of women's poetry, and I won't teach these poets again
without it.?-NWSA Journal
..."this book, by "shedÝding¨ a stark light on Ýthe¨ whiteness"
that permeates the study of all things American, may help begin the
process of peeling back those cultural accoutrements."-JASAT
"White Women Writing is an important book for feminist teachers and
scholars of women's poetry, and I won't teach these poets again
without it."-NWSA Journal
..."this book, by "shed[ding] a stark light on [the] whiteness"
that permeates the study of all things American, may help begin the
process of peeling back those cultural accoutrements."-JASAT
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