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New myths, new scripts: revisionist mythopoeia in contemporary South African women’s poetry

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dc.contributor.author Byrne, Deirdre
dc.date.accessioned 2014-05-15T05:52:41Z
dc.date.available 2014-05-15T05:52:41Z
dc.date.issued 2014-05-15
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13440
dc.description.abstract Considerable theoretical and critical work has been done on the way British and American women poets re-vision (Rich 1976) male-centred myth. Some South African women poets have also used similar strategies. My article identifies a gap in the academy’s reading of a significant, but somewhat neglected, body of poetry and begins to address this lack of scholarship. My article argues that South African women poets use their art to re-vision some of the central constructs of patriarchal mythology, including the association of women with the body and the irrational, and men with the mind and logic. These poems function on two levels: they demonstrate that the constructs they subvert are artificial; and they create new and empowering narratives for women in order to contribute to the re-imagining of gender relations. en
dc.language.iso en en
dc.subject South African women poets, revisionist mythopoeia, feminist poetry, the Muse, women's bodies, feminist poetic subversion, patriarchal myth en
dc.title New myths, new scripts: revisionist mythopoeia in contemporary South African women’s poetry en
dc.type Article en
dc.description.department English Studies en


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