Crossing Color: Transcultural Space and Place in Rita Dove's Poetry, Fiction, and DramaOxford University Press, 12.04.2001 - 256 Seiten Rita Dove (b. 1952) was elected Poet Laureate--the first ever African-American to hold the position--in 1993, in recognition of work that combines racially sensitive observation with searing and immediate personal experience. She is best known for her substantial body of poetry, although she has also been recognized for her many accomplishments in drama and fiction, written in both German and English. Crossing Color, written by a well-known Americanist in the European community, is the first full-length critical study offering a comprehensive biographic and literary portrait of Rita Dove and her work. |
Inhalt
The Aim of Crossing Color | 3 |
1 Rita Doves MacroPoetics of Space | 23 |
2 Rita Doves MicroPoetics of Space | 46 |
3 Movements of a Marriage Or Looking Awry at US History | 95 |
Through the Ivory Gate | 110 |
5 Myths Remakes | 122 |
On the Bus with Rosa Parks | 140 |
Conclusions | 163 |
In Conversation with Rita Dove | 167 |
Notes | 179 |
Works Cited | 201 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Seite ix - No one today is purely one thing. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim, or American are not more than starting-points, which if followed into actual experience for only a moment are quickly left behind. Imperialism consolidated the mixture of cultures and identities on a global scale. But its worst and most paradoxical gift was to allow people to believe that they were only, mainly, exclusively, white, or Black, or Western, or Oriental.