Karen Jackson Ford: 2 books
Split-Gut Song
Jean Toomer and the Poetics of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
In Split-Gut Song, Karen Jackson Ford looks at what it means to be African American, free, and creative by analyzing Jean Toomer's main body of work, specifically, his groundbreaking creation Cane. When first published in 1923, this pivotal work of modernism was widely hailed as inaugurating a truly...
Gender and the Poetics of Excess
Moments of Brocade
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1997
The argument posed in this analysis is that the poetic excesses of several major female poets, excesses that have been typically regarded as flaws in their work, are strategies for escaping the inhibiting and sometimes inimical conventions too often imposed on women writers. The forms of excess...