I am the androgyne: reflections on gender and language in the poetry of Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and Adrienne Rich

• Autores: Marta Pérez Novales
• Localización: Miscelánea: A journal of english and american studies, ISSN 1137-6368, Nº 13, 1992, págs. 121-138
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • In this essay, some lines from Adrienne Rich's "The Stranger" serve as the starting point for an outline of the standard approaches to women's language in contemporary Anglo-American and French feminism. The work of three representative American female poets -Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and Adrienne Rich- is considered, in order to illustrate the theoretical issues discussed in the first part of the essay. A conclusion follows, in which androgyny is propounded as a useful concept in characterising contemporary women's poetry.