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Women In The Contact Zone. Review Of The Frontiers Of Women’S Writing: Women’S Narratives And The Rhetoric Of Westward Expansion By Brigitte Georgi-Findlay, Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Women In The Contact Zone. Review Of The Frontiers Of Women’S Writing: Women’S Narratives And The Rhetoric Of Westward Expansion By Brigitte Georgi-Findlay, Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Pomona Faculty Publications and Research
Georgi-Findlay's project in The Frontiers of Women's Writing is in many ways a synthesis of these two revisionary projects, both re-attributing importance to women's narratives of westward expansion and re-reading those narratives for their constructions of the colonialist presence in the west. She examines in these narratives, which span genres including fiction, travel writing, semi-public diaries, and personal letters, across "a range of cultural discourses ordering relations of race, class, and gender" (pp. x-xi) to show how "women's accounts are implicated in expansionist processes at the same time that they formulate positions of innocence and detachment" (p. xi). By mobilizing …
Reading Elizabeth Bishop As A Religious Poet, Cheryl Walker
Reading Elizabeth Bishop As A Religious Poet, Cheryl Walker
Scripps Faculty Publications and Research
Elizabeth Bishop is usually described as a modernist poet with a skeptical mind. This essay contests the critical tendency to dismiss religion as a serious concern in her poetry, by first challenging the widespread dismissal in the United States of all religious approaches to modern poetry and then challenging the tendency to disclaim attempts to read Elizabeth Bishop in religious terms. The essay includes a close reading of “The End of March” as a text which invites intertextual commentary from a Christian perspective.