The Age of Phillis in Forms, Found and Free — The Age of Phillis (Roundtable)
In The Age of Phillis, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers takes on a work of Black poetic lineage and matriarchal reclamation that makes scholarship sing. Jeffers’s more traditional pro-sodic engagement mimics the literary ages in which the book occurs: the masterly and capacious eighteenth-century couplets (a...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-1485542021-05-19T20:10:33Z The Age of Phillis in Forms, Found and Free — The Age of Phillis (Roundtable) Factor, Jenny Plasencia, Sam School of Humanities Humanities::Literature::English In The Age of Phillis, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers takes on a work of Black poetic lineage and matriarchal reclamation that makes scholarship sing. Jeffers’s more traditional pro-sodic engagement mimics the literary ages in which the book occurs: the masterly and capacious eighteenth-century couplets (and centos) of a Pope or Dryden and the globally prescient pantoums and villanelles that echo oral tradition. Yet in addition to the couplets, villanelles, pantoums, and centos of the volume, Jeffers tells a story of embodiment through a more experimental use of form. Published version 2021-05-11T02:57:04Z 2021-05-11T02:57:04Z 2021 Journal Article Factor, J. & Plasencia, S. (2021). The Age of Phillis in Forms, Found and Free — The Age of Phillis (Roundtable). Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment, 2(2), 27-31. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/srej.2021.2.2.9 2661-3336 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/148554 10.32655/srej.2021.2.2.9 2 2 27 31 en Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment © 2021 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, & the Brigham Young University Faculty Publishing Service. application/pdf |
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In The Age of Phillis, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers takes on a work of Black poetic lineage and matriarchal reclamation that makes scholarship sing. Jeffers’s more traditional pro-sodic engagement mimics the literary ages in which the book occurs: the masterly and capacious eighteenth-century couplets (and centos) of a Pope or Dryden and the globally prescient pantoums and villanelles that echo oral tradition. Yet in addition to the couplets, villanelles, pantoums, and centos of the volume, Jeffers tells a story of embodiment through a more experimental use of form. |
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