Book contents
- Elizabeth Bishop in Context
- Elizabeth Bishop in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figure
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Referencing and Abbreviations
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Places
- Part II Forms
- Part III Literary Contexts
- Part IV Politics, Society and Culture
- Chapter 18 War
- Chapter 19 The Cold War
- Chapter 20 Music
- Chapter 21 Psychoanalysis
- Chapter 22 Religion
- Chapter 23 Anthropology
- Chapter 24 Travel
- Part V Identity
- Part VI Reception and Criticism
- Works Cited
- Index
Chapter 19 - The Cold War
from Part IV - Politics, Society and Culture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 August 2021
- Elizabeth Bishop in Context
- Elizabeth Bishop in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figure
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Referencing and Abbreviations
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Places
- Part II Forms
- Part III Literary Contexts
- Part IV Politics, Society and Culture
- Chapter 18 War
- Chapter 19 The Cold War
- Chapter 20 Music
- Chapter 21 Psychoanalysis
- Chapter 22 Religion
- Chapter 23 Anthropology
- Chapter 24 Travel
- Part V Identity
- Part VI Reception and Criticism
- Works Cited
- Index
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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- Elizabeth Bishop in Context , pp. 221 - 232Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021