Fleur Adcock

by Janet Wilson

This study discusses Adcock as a writer who draws on her experiences of dislocation in order to position herself between cultures. Contrasting her work with that of the post-war British poetic mainstream with which she has been associated, it emphasises that the radically displaced feminised consciousness which negotiates the boundaries between self and other can be identified in Adcock's poetry as metonymic of resolving national and cultural differences...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0746310404
• ISBN13: 9780746310403
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.2"