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Present day feminist poetry in North America holds space for a great variety of poets tackling identity, sexuality, and gender issues. Key writings in the recent past include Claudia Rankine 's careful skewering of race related microaggressions in Citizen, [ 61 ] Dorothea Laskey's "ferocious confession" in Rome for example, [ 62 ] and Bhanu ...
Gibson uses gender-neutral pronouns, specifically they/them/theirs. [9] Many of their poems are about gender identity, such as "Swing Set" and "Andrew". [10] Gibson has said, regarding gender, "I don't necessarily identify within a gender binary. I've never in my life really felt like a woman and I've certainly never felt like a man.
The speaker in the poems is the "madwoman", a character McCallum stated is based on a voice that she heard in her head, a voice yelling to be freed. The presence of this voice worried McCallum because of her family's history of mental illness (her father suffered from schizophrenia ), but she felt driven to complete her work and free the ...
Borderlands/La Frontera is a semi-autobiographical work of prose and poetry, approaching subjects such as race, gender, class, and identity. Literary scholar Ana Louise Keating conceptualizes Anzaldúa’s writings in Borderlands as a form of “poet-shaman aesthetics,” which argues that Anzaldúa’s words are intended to have material ...
Writing in narrative form, she discusses the possibilities and difficulties of coalition and self-identification based on race, class, and gender identity. Although not widely recognized when first published in 1982, this essay has become central to women's and gender studies, sociology, and anthropology in the United States.
Many of Angelou's poems, especially those in Diiie, focus on women's sexual and romantic experiences, but challenge the gender codes of poetry written in previous eras. She also challenges the male-centered and militaristic themes and messages found in the poetry of the Black Arts movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, leading up to the ...
In between those essays, there are poems, journal entries, interviews, photos, and more. [7] Racism. This Bridge Called My Back by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa is a feminist piece that describes two polarizing views based on skin color, the perspectives of light and dark skin Latin American women. [13]
In her book Twenty-First Century Feminism in Children's and Adolescent Literature, author Roberta Seelinger Trites includes Brown Girl Dreaming in the second chapter of the book, “Intersectionalities and Multiplicities.” [6] Race, age, social class, gender, and religion intersect through Jackie’s story, with the language of the book as ...