Behind our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction, with Amy De'Ath, 2/26
200 Packard Avenue
Join us February 26 for a conversation with Amy De'Ath, in conversation with Juno Richards, about Amy's new book, Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction.
In her fist book, Amy De'Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the way our lives are shaped by capital's impersonal compulsions – by what happens "behind our backs." Close reading works by Kay Gabriel, Bernadette Mayer, Bhanu Kapil, Marie Annharte Baker, Alli Warren, and Hannah Black, Behind Our Backs explains how these examples of feminized ingenuity reveal capital to be the expression of a social relation that must take form—an abstract logic realized every day, and one whose gendering inversions are felt and critiqued in the poetic experiments of trans, queer, Indigenous, and diasporic writing. Feminized poetry, De'Ath demonstrates, is both a central archive and theoretical powerhouse for the critique of capitalist political economy.
Books will also be sold at the event: https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/behind-our-backs
All are welcome. For questions, contact english@tufts.edu.
