On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966 - 1978

Adrienne Rich

ISBN 10: 0393012336 / ISBN 13: 9780393012330

Published by W. W. Norton, 1979

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Bibliographic Details

Title: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected ...

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Publication Date: 1979

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

About this title

Synopsis:

In this collection of prose writings, one of America's foremost poets and feminist theorists reflects upon themes that have shaped her life and work.

At issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as "part of the effort to define a female consciousness which is political, aesthetic, and erotic, and which refuses to be included or contained in the culture of passivity."

From the Back Cover:

One of America's foremost poets and feminist theorists collect here some of her most important early prose writings. On Lies, Secrets, and Silence is an extraordinary sort of travel diary, documenting Adrienne Rich's journeys to the frontier and into the interior. It traces the development of one individual consciousness, 'playing over such issues as motherhood, racism, history, poetry, the uses of scholarship, the politics of language.' Rich has written a headnote for each essay, briefly discussing the circumstances of its writing.