The Muriel Rukeyser Era - Muriel Rukeyser - Books - Cornell University Press - 9781501771750 - November 15, 2023
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The Muriel Rukeyser Era


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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 Eric Keenaghan and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein assemble a selection of unpublished and out-of-print texts, demonstrating the diversity, brilliance, and possibilities of mid-twentieth century women's intellectual life and sociopolitical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. A deeply committed thinker, her accessible but philosophically complex prose-including essays, lectures, radio scripts, stories, and reviews- addresses 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 writer-especially the woman writer. This selection reveals the centrality of feminism, anti-fascism, and anti-racism to her thinking and thus affirms the resonance and urgency of her work today.
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360 pages, 1 Halftones, black and white

Media Books     Book
Released November 15, 2023
ISBN13 9781501771750
Publishers Cornell University Press
Pages 360
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   526 g
Language English  
Editor Keenaghan, Eric
Editor Kennedy-Epstein, Rowena

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