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The formation of a feminist counterpublic in the poetics of Lola Lemire Tostevin and Daphne Marlatt

The formation of a feminist counterpublic in the poetics of Lola Lemire Tostevin and Daphne Marlatt
The formation of a feminist counterpublic in the poetics of Lola Lemire Tostevin and Daphne Marlatt
In light of Nancy Fraser’s discussion of the formation of feminist counterpublics, this article assesses how Lola Lemire Tostevin and Daphne Marlatt have invented a public language in their writing for articulating the embodied experience of pregnancy. In so doing, I argue that Tostevin and Marlatt not only challenge the exclusion of women’s lives from avant-garde poetics – as diagnosed by Dorothy Lusk in Ogress Oblige – but they also contribute to the formation of a feminist counterpublic for articulating the social, political and physical experience of pregnancy in their writing.
1754-1476
151-170
Morton, Stephen
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Morton, Stephen
3200c49e-fcfa-4088-9168-1d6998266ec1

Morton, Stephen (2007) The formation of a feminist counterpublic in the poetics of Lola Lemire Tostevin and Daphne Marlatt. Contemporary Women's Writing, 1 (1-2), 151-170. (doi:10.1093/cww/vpm007).

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In light of Nancy Fraser’s discussion of the formation of feminist counterpublics, this article assesses how Lola Lemire Tostevin and Daphne Marlatt have invented a public language in their writing for articulating the embodied experience of pregnancy. In so doing, I argue that Tostevin and Marlatt not only challenge the exclusion of women’s lives from avant-garde poetics – as diagnosed by Dorothy Lusk in Ogress Oblige – but they also contribute to the formation of a feminist counterpublic for articulating the social, political and physical experience of pregnancy in their writing.

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Published date: December 2007

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Local EPrints ID: 66136
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/66136
ISSN: 1754-1476
PURE UUID: 19f8b925-e9fa-4cc2-91ed-34a912a0f42f
ORCID for Stephen Morton: ORCID iD orcid.org/0009-0009-5294-5640

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Date deposited: 05 May 2009
Last modified: 27 Jul 2024 01:39

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