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Experimental Women's Writing (Gertrude Stein (Harryette Mullen…
Experimental Women's Writing
Gertrude Stein
If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso
A poem that indirectly describes Picasso and relates to the portrait he painted for Stein. The work uses Stein's trademark repetition and "resemblance" to communicate its ideas.
Melanctha
A disappointingly racist work by Stein that centers on a black woman and her promiscuity in heterosexual relationships. The work evolved from QED, an earlier work by Stein about a gay relationship between two white women that was similar to Stein's lived experience. It is unclear why she decided to change the characters in this way.
Harryette Mullen
Trimmings
Trimmings
is a direct response to
Tender Buttons
. It mirrors
Tender Buttons
in form and substance, with both being a collection of prose poems that explore femininity.
"Poetry and Identity"
An essay discussing the poetry world's desire to lump black experimental poets in either the "black" or "experimental" categories and rarely considering the intersection between them.
Tender Buttons
Tender Buttons
is a collection of prose poems set in the domestic sphere. The poems are often scattered and a-grammatical.
Writers using found material
M. NourbeSe Phillips
Zong!
A work that centers around the Zong slave ship, and the massacre that occurred when the captain threw slaves overboard in an attempt to collect the insurance money. The work is highly experimental and fragmented and uses only text found in the legal decision of the Zong insurance case.
This is an oil painting of the Zong slave ship massacre. The humans in the water are trying to swim and stay alive, but their struggle is futile.
Robin Coste Lewis
Voyage of the Sable Venus
This is an etching that is also called
Voyage of the Sable Venus
. It is similar to the well known
Birth of Venus
by Botticelli, but depicts a black woman instead of a white woman.
Voyage of the Sable Venus
explores how black women are portrayed in art objects, and uses exclusively titles of the objects in its text. The work makes extensive use of enjambment to change the meanings of the titles: often, it is difficult to tell where one title ends and another begins.
Layli Long Soldier
Whereas
Whereas
responds to the Congressional Resolution of Apology to Native Americans that was signed by President Obama in December of 2009. The resolution was not read or presented to any Native leaders, and
Whereas
addresses the inadequacies and criticizes the tone of the resolution.
Whereas
follows the same general structure as the resolution, with whereas statements and a disclaimer at the end, and the text often borrows language from the resolution itself.
Claudia Rankine
Citizen
Citizen is a work that focuses on the experiences of African Americans and features many moments of "microagressions" where people are showing their racist beliefs and feelings in a non-overt way. The work includes significant writing in second person, and aims to demonstrate the reality of black experience in America
Other Essays
"Delusions of Whiteness in the Avant Garde" by Cathy Park Hong
"Modernism's African Mask: The Stein-Picasso Collaboration" by Michael North
