Making Noise, Making News
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-998829-7 (ISBN)
In this fascinating cultural history, Mary Chapman demonstrates the importance of the aesthetically innovative print culture produced by US suffragists in the two decades leading up to the passage of the 19th Amendment, seven decades after women's rights activists first met at Seneca Falls. A century before the advent of "social media", suffragists mobilized the masses [fashioned a "suffragist spring" through creative forms of propaganda including advocacy journals, guest-edited mainstream magazines, banners, voiceless speech placards, publicity stunts, poetry, and fiction. These propaganda forms made the public sphere much more inclusive even as they also perpetuated an image of the suffragist New Woman as native-born, white, and middle-class.
Making Noise, Making News also understands modern suffragist print culture as a demonstrable link between the Progressive Era's political campaign for a voice in the public sphere and Modernism's aesthetic efforts to re-imagine literary voice. Chapman charts a relationship between modern suffragist print cultural "noise" and what literary modernists understood by "making it new!", asserting that the experimental tactics of US suffrage print culture contributed to, and even anticipated, the formal innovations of US literary modernism. Drawing on little-known archives and featuring over twenty visually stunning illustrations, Making Noise, Making News provides startling documentation of Marianne Moore's closeted career as a suffrage propagandist, the persuasive effects of Algonquin Table's Alice Duer Miller's popular poetry column, Asian-American author Sui Sin Far's challenge to the racism and classism of modern suffragism, and Gertrude Stein's midcentury recognition of intersections between suffrage discourse and literary modernism.
Mary Chapman is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. She is the coeditor of Treacherous Texts: U.S. Suffrage Literature 1846-1946 (Rutgers UP, 2011).
INTRODUCTION: ; Throwing the Voice and Making It New ; CHAPTER ONE: ; "Seditious Organs": The Noise of Modern Suffrage Print Culture ; CHAPTER TWO: ; "Voiceless" Speech: The Silence of Modern Suffrage Print Culture ; CHAPTER THREE: ; "Magpie Habit": Quotation and Ventriloquism in Alice Duer Miller's Are Women People? ; CHAPTER FOUR: ; Miss Marianne Moore: "Bulldoggy" on Suffrage ; CHAPTER FIVE: ; "Straight Talk, And Quick talk": Conversation as a Politic in Modern Suffrage Fiction ; CHAPTER SIX: ; Edith Eaton/Sui Sin Far's "Revolutions in Ink: Print Cultural Alternatives to U.S. Suffrage Discourse ; CODA: ; Genealogies of Modernism and Suffrage: The Mother[s] of Us All ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.5.2014 |
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Reihe/Serie | Oxford Studies in American Literary History ; 6 |
Zusatzinfo | 27 halftones |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 239 x 163 mm |
Gewicht | 562 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-998829-3 / 0199988293 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-998829-7 / 9780199988297 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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