Hysterical Water
Title | Hysterical Water PDF eBook |
Author | Hannah Baker Saltmarsh |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | 110 |
Release | 2021-03-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0820359017 |
Hysterical Water is a collection of fierce, funny, feminist poems, prose poems, and essays with poems woven through them, all connected by threads associated with female “hysteria” and motherhood. Hannah Baker Saltmarsh troubles the historic pseudodiagnostic term hysteria as both a constraining mode used to contain and silence women and as a mode that oddly freed women to behave outside the bounds of social norms. The poems in this collection question the way maternal thinking, sexuality, affect, and creativity have been dismissed as hysterical. Saltmarsh reclaims the word hysteria by arguing that women poets might, in art as in life, celebrate incongruous emotional experiences. Drawing on and reshaping an intriguing array of source materials, Saltmarsh borrows from the language of uncontrollable emotion, excess, cure, remedy, and cult-like obsession to give shape not only to the maternal body but also to a hysterical textual one. She revisits selective silence and selective speech in everyday crises of feelings, engages meaningful “anticommunication” through odd gestures and symbols, and indulges in nonsensical dream-speak, among other tactics, to carve a feminist poetics of madness out of the masculinist discourse that has located in the woman the hysteric.
Longman's Magazine
Title | Longman's Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | Charles James Longman |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 594 |
Release | 1897 |
Genre | English periodicals |
ISBN |
The Monthly magazine of pharmacy, chemistry, medicine, &c
Title | The Monthly magazine of pharmacy, chemistry, medicine, &c PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 800 |
Release | 1883 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
An Essay on Hysteria
Title | An Essay on Hysteria PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Laycock |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 236 |
Release | 1840 |
Genre | Constipation |
ISBN |
London: Tudor. Charles the Second. George the Second
Title | London: Tudor. Charles the Second. George the Second PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Besant |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 310 |
Release | 1893 |
Genre | London (England) |
ISBN |
The Gentleman's Magazine
Title | The Gentleman's Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 696 |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | English periodicals |
ISBN |
Deutsch-englisches und englisch-deutsches Wörterbuch
Title | Deutsch-englisches und englisch-deutsches Wörterbuch PDF eBook |
Author | Christoph Fr Grieb |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1100 |
Release | 1873 |
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