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The cracks between what we are and what we are supposed to be : essays and interviews / Harryette Mullen ; introduction by Hank Lazer.
- Title
- The cracks between what we are and what we are supposed to be : essays and interviews / Harryette Mullen ; introduction by Hank Lazer.
- Author
- Mullen, Harryette Romell
- Publication
- Tuscaloosa : University Alabama Press, 2012.
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- Description
- xvi, 273 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be forms an extended consideration not only of Harryette Mullen's own work, methods, and interests as a poet, but also of issues of central importance to African American poetry and language, women's voices, and the future of poetry"--
- Series Statement
- Modern and contemporary poetics
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Modern and contemporary poetics
- Subject
- Mullen, Harryette Romell > Interviews
- Mullen, Harryette Romell > Criticism and interpretation
- 1900-1999
- Poets, American > 20th century > Interviews
- African American women poets > Interviews
- Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century
- African American women > Intellectual life > 20th century
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Interviews
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-273).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: I. Shorter Essays -- 1. Imagining the Unimagined Reader: Writing to the Unborn and Including the Excluded -- 2. Poetry and Identity -- 3. Kinky Quatrains: The Making of Muse & Drudge -- 4. Telegraphs from a Distracted Sibyl -- 5. If Lilies are Lily White: From the Stain of Miscegenation in Stein's "Melanctha" to the "Clean Mixture" of White and Color in Tender Buttons -- 6. Nine Syllables Label Sylvia: Reading Plath's "Metaphors" -- 7. Evaluation of an Unwritten Poem: Wislawa Szymborska in the Dialogue of Creative and Critical Thinkers -- 8. Theme for the Oulipians -- 9. When He Is Least Himself: Paul Laurence Dunbar and Double Consciousness in African American Poetry -- 10. Truly Unruly Julie: The Innovative Rule-Breaking Poetry of Julie Patton -- 11. All Silence Says Music Will Follow: Listening to Lorenzo Thomas -- 12. Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be: Stretching the Dialogue of African American Poetry -- II. Longer Essays -- 13. African Signs and Spirit Writing -- 14. Runaway Tongue: Resistant Orality in Uncle Tom's Cabin, Our Nig, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and Beloved -- 15. Optic White: Blackness and the Production of Whiteness -- 16. Phantom Pain: Nathaniel Mackey's Bedouin Hornbook -- 17. Collective Force of Burning Ink: Will Alexander's Asia & Haiti -- 18. Incessant Elusives: The Oppositional Poetics of Erica Hunt and Will Alexander -- III. Interviews -- 19. "The Solo Mysterioso Blues": An Interview with Harryette Mullen / Calvin Bedient -- 20. Interview with Harryette Mullen / Daniel Kane -- 21. Interview with Harryette Mullen / Elisabeth A. Frost -- 22. Interview with Harryette Mullen / Cynthia Hogue -- 23. "I Dream a World": A Conversation with Harryette Mullen / Nibir K. Ghosh.
- ISBN
- 9780817357139 (pbk.)
- 9780817386177 (ebook)
- LCCN
- ^^2012005533
- OCLC
- 769430611
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library