The walled wife [electronic resource] /Nicelle Davis.
By: Davis, Nicelle (Nicelle Christine) [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
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BookPublisher: Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, [2016] 2015)Edition: First edition.Description: 1 online resource (pages ; cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781597095860.Uniform titles: Poems. Selections Subject(s): POETRY / American / GeneralGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 811/.6 Online resources: Full text available: Summary: "Nicelle Davis's The Walled Wife unearths from the long-standing text "The Ballad of the Walled-up Wife," a host of issues that continue to plague women in the contemporary world: the woman's body as sacrifice; the woman's body as tender or currency; the woman's body as disposable; the woman's body as property; the woman's body as aesthetic object; the woman's body unsafe in the world she must inhabit, and in the hands of the people she loves"-- Provided by publisher.
"Nicelle Davis's The Walled Wife unearths from the long-standing text "The Ballad of the Walled-up Wife," a host of issues that continue to plague women in the contemporary world: the woman's body as sacrifice; the woman's body as tender or currency; the woman's body as disposable; the woman's body as property; the woman's body as aesthetic object; the woman's body unsafe in the world she must inhabit, and in the hands of the people she loves"-- Provided by publisher.
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