The Muriel Rukeyser Era
Selected Prose
- 354 pages
- English
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About This Book
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 Eric Keenaghan and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein assemble a selection of unpublished and out-of-print texts, demonstrating the diversity, brilliance, and possibilities of mid-twentieth-century women's intellectual life and sociopolitical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 proseâincluding essays, lectures, radio scripts, stories, and reviewsâaddresses 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 were never previously published because of conservative Cold War political and gender orthodoxies. The Muriel Rukeyser Era offers new insight into Rukeyser's radical and strikingly contemporary vision for the role of the writerâespecially the woman writer. This selection reveals the centrality of feminism, antifascism, and antiracism to her thinking and thus affirms the resonance and urgency of her work today.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgments and Permissions
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on This Textual Edition
- Editorsâ Introduction
- Authorâs Introduction
- Part I. The Usable Truth: Five Talks on Communication and Poetry
- Part II. Twentieth-Century Radicalism: On Politics, Society, and Culture
- Part III. Media and Democratic Education: A Photo-Text and Radio Scripts
- Part IV. Modernist Interventions: On Gender, Poetry, and Poetics
- Appendix: Bibliographic and Archival Information for Selections by Muriel Rukeyser
- Notes on Contributors
- Selected Bibliography
- Index