The Nonconformist’s Memorial (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Susan Howe
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: History, Language or languages, Sexism, Authors or writers, Literature, Religion, Feminism, Oppression, Women, Death or dying, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Conformity, Jesus Christ
In Marxism and Literature (1977), Raymond Williams posits that the most accessible “counter-hegemonic” works have often been historical, but the rigorously selective process that defines “tradition” is always linked to explicit contemporary pressures and limits. Thus while “history” may seem recoverable as “tradition,” tradition’s hegemonic impulse always works to offer a historical and cultural ratification of a contemporary order. Williams’ deconstructionist approach to the study of the dialectical relationship between history and tradition suggests that to...
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