Disordering the border: Harryette Mullen's transaborder poetics in Muse & Drudge
| dc.citation.epage | 183 | en_US |
| dc.citation.issueNumber | 3 | en_US |
| dc.citation.spage | 151 | en_US |
| dc.citation.volumeNumber | 45 | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Reimer, J. A. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-04-12T13:43:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-04-12T13:43:18Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | en_US |
| dc.department | Department of American Culture and Literature | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This essay reads Harryette Mullen's epic poem Muse & Drudge as an innovative text of the US-Mexico borderlands by focusing on Mullen's literal and figurative transactions between multiple discourses, including Spanish, and the corresponding sets of material conditions these discourses conjure to understand how Muse & Drudge reveals the ongoing racialization and exploitation of African American women and Latinas. I identify a transaborder politics in Muse & Drudge in which shared colonial histories unite Afro-Caribbean diasporic and borderlands subjects. In Mullen's poetics, themes of separation, definition, and regulation are racial-ized concepts, deeply embedded in the violent histories of racial mixing and mestizaje that are both named outright and alluded to metaphorically by her hybridized language. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1920-1222 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11693/38032 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | en_US |
| dc.publisher | The Johns Hopkins University Press and University of Calgary | en_US |
| dc.subject | African American poetry | en_US |
| dc.subject | Feminism | en_US |
| dc.subject | Harryette Mullen | en_US |
| dc.subject | Muse and Drudge | en_US |
| dc.subject | US-Mexico borderlands | en_US |
| dc.subject | Experimental American poetry | en_US |
| dc.title | Disordering the border: Harryette Mullen's transaborder poetics in Muse & Drudge | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
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