TY - JOUR
T1 - “Her symbol was civil war”
T2 - Recovering Muriel Rukeyser’s Lost Spanish Civil War Novel
AU - Kennedy-Epstein, Rowena
N1 - Special issue: Women’s Fiction, New Modernist Studies, and Feminism
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In 1936, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser traveled to Spain to report on the People’s Olympiad, an alternative to Hitler’s Berlin games. Instead, she witnessed the outbreak of civil war. Rukeyser’s writings on her experience span more than forty years, including a lost, unpublished novel, Savage Coast. Recently recovered from her archive, the novel is significant because it hybridizes the forms of aesthetic and political modernism and provides a more complex understanding of how women modernists write about politics and history through modes that both interrogate and transform the boundaries of genre.
AB - In 1936, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser traveled to Spain to report on the People’s Olympiad, an alternative to Hitler’s Berlin games. Instead, she witnessed the outbreak of civil war. Rukeyser’s writings on her experience span more than forty years, including a lost, unpublished novel, Savage Coast. Recently recovered from her archive, the novel is significant because it hybridizes the forms of aesthetic and political modernism and provides a more complex understanding of how women modernists write about politics and history through modes that both interrogate and transform the boundaries of genre.
U2 - 10.1353/mfs.2013.0025
DO - 10.1353/mfs.2013.0025
M3 - Article (Academic Journal)
SN - 0026-7724
VL - 59
SP - 416
EP - 439
JO - MFS: Modern Fiction Studies
JF - MFS: Modern Fiction Studies
IS - 2
ER -