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Abstract
Barren, sterile, infertile. How does a female poet navigate these culturally inherited metaphors and descriptions of their bodies and experiences? This article argues that the upswell in contemporary poetry exploring the many facets of infertility and assisted reproductive technologies (ART) demands consideration as a new strand of writing. This new strand creates new linguistic, poetic infertile subjectivities by adapting, challenging, rejecting, and co-opting inherited cultural linguistic tools. By examining how two contemporary female writers have explored the language and cultural symbolism of assisted reproduction in their poetry, this article considers how their innovative and iconoclastic approaches to cultural and linguistic commonplaces ask us to re-examine our assumptions about the topic, ultimately arguing that it is precisely their interrogative process that defines the poetry itself.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Published Online |
Status: | In Press |
Schools: | English, Communication and Philosophy |
Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0080 Criticism |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
ISSN: | 1754-1484 |
Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 14 June 2024 |
Date of Acceptance: | 4 March 2024 |
Last Modified: | 13 Feb 2025 15:30 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/169742 |
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