El mito de Perséfone y el conflicto de la maternidad en Mother love, de Rita Dove

Este artículo se propone estudiar de qué manera la modernidad introduce nuevas formas de interpretar el vínculo mítico entre Perséfone y Deméter. Para lograr este objetivo, se partirá, en primer lugar, de un estudio de las versiones clásicas de dicha relación y, en segundo lugar, de algunas interpretaciones influyentes ofrecidas en la modernidad. En tercer lugar, se analizará en detalle el acercamiento particular al vínculo madre-hija que propone Rita Dove en su poemario Mother Love (1995) y se desentrañarán las estrategias que esta escritora utiliza para alejarse de la visión idealizada del vínculo y así invocar una manera más compleja y rica de entender las identidades femeninas y, también, los vínculos entre mujeres.

Breaking the Spell of the Male Gaze in Selected Women's Ekphrastic Poems.

For centuries art and poetry have been inspiring each other and the relation between word and image constantly fascinates the poets. The literary world has given poems that tackle artwork the name: ekphrasis. Ekphrasis represents a rich hunting ground for references, allusions, and inspiration for poets. However, ekphrasis is powerfully gendered that privileged male gaze. Traditionally, the male is given the strong position as the gazer, while the woman is locked in her predetermined role that of the beautiful, silent, submissive, gazed upon. Women poets refuse to adhere to the gendered ekphrastic tradition and the under-representation of women in ekphrastic poetry. They strongly challenged the ekphrasis tradition modifying it to create a distinctive feminist ekphrasis. Their poetry changes the male-dominated ekphrsis tradition that for centuries has pervaded the Western cultures. The work of the poets Louise Bogan,Carol Ann Duffy, Rita Dove, and Margaret Atwood is an excellent example of women's ekphrastic poetry that defies the tradition of patriarchal male gaze in an attempt to break the spell of the male gaze.

The Spaces of Black Experimental Poetry

This chapter reads black experimental poetry of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries through the lens of the sonnet. While scholars such as Aldon Nielsen and Anthony Reed have stressed the temporal dimension of this poetry, the popularity of the sonnet among black experimental poets draws attention to the spatial dimension. In close readings of sonnet sequences by Ed Roberson, Wanda Coleman, Rita Dove, G. E. Patterson, and Wanda Phipps, the chapter shows how these poets use techniques such as seriality and fragmentation to explore the interstices of contemporary discourses about blackness, question conventionalized meanings, and envision a sphere of semantic openness that overcomes racial stereotypes and limiting ascriptions.