Abstract

Conflict and Identity in Adrienne Rich’s Poetry

Neerja Nagpal

Volume: 12 Issue: 2 2022

Abstract:

It is easy to imagine that there would be multiple conflicts depicted in the poetry of Adrienne Rich. However, the politico-sexual aspect of lesbianism is being focussed upon here for a nuanced study. Rich was one of the towering literary figures of the 20th century and located herself at the intersections of race, gender, queerness, colour and anti-semitist conflicts. Almost entire corpus of her work came out of these strifes and frictions. Her work is a cauldron of the interface of the personal and the public. She harvests her personal conflicts to create poetry of vision, of activism, of revolutionary and radical feminism and lesbian feminism.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v12i02.025

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