{"title":"Teaching the Unteachable: Adrienne Rich and the Limits of Pedagogy","authors":"Alex Streim","doi":"10.1353/arq.2022.0006","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay argues that one strain of Adrienne Rich's late poetry investigates the possibility of teaching others \"to be human.\" In readings of poems from Dark Fields of the Republic (1995), Midnight Salvage (1998), The School Among the Ruins (2004), Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth (2007), and Tonight No Poetry Will Serve (2011), it tracks several aspects of Rich's interest in the practice of humanist pedagogy. Under the influence of the early Marx, as well as the educational writings of Simone Weil and Antonio Gramsci, Rich uses this late poetry to demonstrate and produce the paradoxically liberating effects of seemingly traditional teaching.","PeriodicalId":42394,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Quarterly","volume":"78 1","pages":"69 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Arizona Quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/arq.2022.0006","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, AMERICAN","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This essay argues that one strain of Adrienne Rich's late poetry investigates the possibility of teaching others "to be human." In readings of poems from Dark Fields of the Republic (1995), Midnight Salvage (1998), The School Among the Ruins (2004), Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth (2007), and Tonight No Poetry Will Serve (2011), it tracks several aspects of Rich's interest in the practice of humanist pedagogy. Under the influence of the early Marx, as well as the educational writings of Simone Weil and Antonio Gramsci, Rich uses this late poetry to demonstrate and produce the paradoxically liberating effects of seemingly traditional teaching.
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Arizona Quarterly publishes scholarly essays on American literature, culture, and theory. It is our mission to subject these categories to debate, argument, interpretation, and contestation via critical readings of primary texts. We accept essays that are grounded in textual, formal, cultural, and theoretical examination of texts and situated with respect to current academic conversations whilst extending the boundaries thereof.
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