Feminism and Poetry
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FEMINISM AND POETRY
A Literary Analysis of June Jordan’s Revolutionary Works
by Phanith Sovann
June Jordan
http://manjioca.files.wo
rdpress.com/2009/03/ju
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•Born in Harlem New
York on July 1936
•Poet, novelist,
playwright, essayist,
educator, activist,
biographer
•Best known for her
poetry and essays
Thesis:
Outline:
Feminist theories find
expression in June
Jordan’s poetry
Introduction
I. June Jordan’s life
II. Black Feminist theory
in Jordan’s poetry
A. “Poem about my
rights”
III. Critical Race Theory in
Jordan’s poetry
IV. Conclusion
“Poem about my Rights”
Even tonight and I need to take a walk and
clear/ my head about this poem about why I
can’t/ go out without changing my clothes my
shoes / my body posture my gender identity
my age/ my status as a woman alone in the
evening/ alone on the streets/alone not being
the point/ the point being that I can’t do what
I want / to do with my own body because I am
the wrong / sex the wrong age the wrong skin
and
Feminism in two different
Texts
“Poem about my Rights”
“A Black Feminist Statement”
June Jordan
Combahee River Collective
A poem
A statement
Subjective experience
Collective conscience
Use of “my” and “I”
Use of “we”
Conclusion:
No one method is better than the other
One may be preferable than the other
according to audience and circumstance
Able to reach a wider and broader audience if
we convey our messages through different
means