Look to Your Left : A Feminist Poetics of Spectacle  / Kristina Marie Darling.

First edition.

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2022

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022

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The essays in the collection examine, from a variety of perspectives and conceptual standpoints, the ways performative language in contemporary poetry can be politically charged. The poetic text, then, becomes a spectacle, which ultimately renegotiates the power dynamics implicit in the simple act of looking. As the language unfolds before the reader, they are involved and implicated in a revision of what is and what always has been an unequal share of power on the stage of textual authorship and readerly interpretation. In Look to Your Left: A Feminist Poetics of Spectacle, Darling grounds these ambitious theoretical discussions (and interventions) in poetry by women, non-binary writers, and writers of color, with a particular emphasis on texts that have been heretofore undertheorized.

Project MUSE complete collection 2022.

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July 19, 2023

Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-130) and index.