Reorientation of desire in Adrienne Rich's Twenty-One Love Poems
Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) is a leading voice within the feminist movement in the United States. The issue of female identity and liberation is a recurrent theme in Rich’s poetry. She proposes a new possibility of freeing women through the reorientation of female desire as a key issue in the restruct...
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| author | Hassan, Mohamad Fleih Talif, Rosli Jujar Singh, Hardev Kaur |
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| description | Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) is a leading voice within the feminist movement in the United States. The issue of female identity and liberation is a recurrent theme in Rich’s poetry. She proposes a new possibility of freeing women through the reorientation of female desire as a key issue in the restructure of female identity. Therefore, my objective in this study is to deal with the abject representation of female desire in Adrienne Rich’s Twenty-One Love Poems to show her poetics behind the reorientation of female desire. This paper employs Julia Kristeva’s Abjection in analyzing Rich’s Twenty-One Love Poems (1977) to explore her poetic discourse concerning the restructuring of female identity through the reorientation of female desire. Desire is a key determinant of one’s identity; thus the application of Kristeva’s theory of Abjection will give a better understanding of Rich’s resort to the reorientation of female desire as a source of empowerment for women. Rich presents her proposal of female desire as a new strategy of helping women against the oppressive thought of heterosexuality and patriarchy in her poems. Rich in this poem exhibits a transformative understanding of the potentials and powers of the female body and the possibility of utilizing it to face the compulsory heterosexuality and patriarchal thought. |
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| spelling | upm.eprints-602642018-05-18T03:45:55Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/60264/ Reorientation of desire in Adrienne Rich's Twenty-One Love Poems Hassan, Mohamad Fleih Talif, Rosli Jujar Singh, Hardev Kaur Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) is a leading voice within the feminist movement in the United States. The issue of female identity and liberation is a recurrent theme in Rich’s poetry. She proposes a new possibility of freeing women through the reorientation of female desire as a key issue in the restructure of female identity. Therefore, my objective in this study is to deal with the abject representation of female desire in Adrienne Rich’s Twenty-One Love Poems to show her poetics behind the reorientation of female desire. This paper employs Julia Kristeva’s Abjection in analyzing Rich’s Twenty-One Love Poems (1977) to explore her poetic discourse concerning the restructuring of female identity through the reorientation of female desire. Desire is a key determinant of one’s identity; thus the application of Kristeva’s theory of Abjection will give a better understanding of Rich’s resort to the reorientation of female desire as a source of empowerment for women. Rich presents her proposal of female desire as a new strategy of helping women against the oppressive thought of heterosexuality and patriarchy in her poems. Rich in this poem exhibits a transformative understanding of the potentials and powers of the female body and the possibility of utilizing it to face the compulsory heterosexuality and patriarchal thought. 2015 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/60264/1/44-11.pdf Hassan, Mohamad Fleih and Talif, Rosli and Jujar Singh, Hardev Kaur (2015) Reorientation of desire in Adrienne Rich's Twenty-One Love Poems. In: 5th Malaysia International Conference on Foreign Languages (MICFL 2015), 2-3 Dec. 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (pp. 311-322). |
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