Böcker av Sandra M. Gilbert

In this work of feminist literary criticism the authors explore the works of many major 19th-century women writers. They chart a tangible desire expressed for freedom from the restraints of a confining patriarchal society and trace a distinctive female literary tradition.

The title of this collection-at times mournful, sardonic, and joyous-refers to the grief in the wake of loss. Yet these poems aren't just about the consequences of loss but also about the complex experiences of endurance, acquiescence, and rebirth that, with luck, mark the aftermath of sorrow.from "Aftermath: Kite"      But the thought is only paper after all,      a soul that clings to a stick, tears open, shreds      as if it's flung to the ground in a final shiny fall,      and at last the line goes limp, the climbing ends.      Beyond the rush & sweep, an arc of silence-      though a mind imagined this flight, & proved it once.

"The range of this new collection is exciting. Gilbert travels along the shifting boundaries of past and present with wonderful deftness, making Jackson Heights into a magic kingdom. I love this rich ethnic mix."--Maxine Kumin

In this second part of "No Man's Land", Gilbert and Gubar focus on texts from the early part of the 20th century to expand on the claim made in the first volume that, for literary men and women, sexual battles were associated with "sexchanges" - or radically conceived gender roles.

An ambitious, intricately wrought corona of sonnets ponders the nature of belonging in every sense of the word.

This text argues that 20th-century women of letters have found themselves on a confusing cultural front and that most, aware of the artifice of gender, have dispatched "missives" recording some form of the "future shock" related with profound changes in the roles and rules governing sexuality.