Reproduction and the Female Body in Anne Sexton’s Poetry

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dc.contributor.authorKiss, Boglárka
dc.date.issued2021-02-01
dc.description.abstractThe essay focuses on two representative examples of Anne Sexton’s poems about reproduction, “In Celebration of My Uterus” and “The Abortion.” Contrary to most previous analyses which have foregrounded Sexton’s concern with personal identity, the paper claims that Sexton positions personal experience in the wider framework of cultural and social discourses. “In Celebration of My Uterus” explores the experience of the vitality of the speaker’s reproductive organ in the context of kinship with women in other geopolitical locations, also addressing how childbearing is implicated in processes of national economic production. “The Abortion” situates the termination of a pregnancy in the context of the Pennsylvanian landscape, raising questions regarding the embeddedness of the natural landscape in processes of human economic production, as well as the financial implications of the termination of a pregnancy. While questions of self-identity, personal boundaries, and physical experiences are undoubtedly central to “The Abortion” and “In Celebration of My Uterus,” they also attest to Sexton’s concern with the experience of the individual in their wider social context.  (BK)en
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dc.identifier.citationHungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 24 No. 2 (2018) ,
dc.identifier.eissn2732-0421
dc.identifier.issn1218-7364
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.jtitleHungarian Journal of English and American Studies
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2437/294850en
dc.identifier.volume24
dc.languageen
dc.relationhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/7231
dc.rights.accessOpen Access
dc.rights.ownerHungarian Journal of English and American Studies
dc.subjectAnne Sextonen
dc.subjectAmerican poetryen
dc.titleReproduction and the Female Body in Anne Sexton’s Poetryen
dc.typefolyóiratcikkhu
dc.typearticleen
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