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Chapter 19 - The Cold War

from Part IV - Politics, Society and Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2021

By
Steven Gould Axelrod
Edited by
Angus Cleghorn  and
Jonathan Ellis
Angus Cleghorn
Affiliation:
Seneca College, Canada
Jonathan Ellis
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield
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Summary

Bishop recurrently returned to the topic of Cold War politics under the pressure of public events, her life experiences, and her reading in political theory. “View of the Capitol from the Library of Congress” initiated what might be termed her Cold War poetics, in which her poems both reflected and resisted the political discourse of containment culture. Bishop deployed her complexly entangled poetics in such later poems as “Brazil, January 1, 1502,” “The Armadillo,” “12 O’Clock News,” “A Baby Found in the Garbage,” “Pink Dog” and “Exchanging Hats.” Employing a rhetoric of irony, and at times of confession, she obliquely critiqued US foreign policy, patriarchy, militarism, racial and class hierarchy, gender containment, and sexual heteronormativity

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Cold Warcontainmentpoliticsmicropoliticspoeticsculturediscourseresistancegender
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Elizabeth Bishop in Context , pp. 221 - 232
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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