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The Muriel Rukeyser Era makes available for the first time a range of Muriel Rukeyser''s prose, a rich and diverse archive of political, social, and aesthetic writings. Eric Keenaghan and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein assemble a selection of unpublished and out-of-print texts, demonstrating the diversity, brilliance, and possibilities of mid-twentieth-century women''s intellectual life and sociopolitical engagement.

Although primarily known as a poet, Rukeyser produced an expansive and influential body of nonfiction and critical writings. Reflective of a deeply committed thinker, her accessible but philosophically complex proseincluding essays, lectures, radio scripts, stories, and reviewsaddresses issues related to racial, gender, and class justice, war and war crimes; the prison-industrial complex, Jewish culture and diaspora, motherhood, literature, music, cinema, and translation. Many of the selected texts have been forgotten, have fallen out of print, or wer

The Muriel Rukeyser Era

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      Publisher Cornell University Press
      Published 15 November 2023
      ISBN-13 9781501771743
      978-1501771743
      ISBN-10 1501771744
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      Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The Muriel Rukeyser Era makes available for the first time a range of Muriel Rukeyser''s prose, a rich and diverse archive of political, social, and aesthetic writings. Eric Keenaghan and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein assemble a selection of unpublished and out-of-print texts, demonstrating the diversity, brilliance, and possibilities of mid-twentieth-century women''s intellectual life and sociopolitical engagement.

      Although primarily known as a poet, Rukeyser produced an expansive and influential body of nonfiction and critical writings. Reflective of a deeply committed thinker, her accessible but philosophically complex proseincluding essays, lectures, radio scripts, stories, and reviewsaddresses issues related to racial, gender, and class justice, war and war crimes; the prison-industrial complex, Jewish culture and diaspora, motherhood, literature, music, cinema, and translation. Many of the selected texts have been forgotten, have fallen out of print, or wer

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