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POETICS OF IDENTITY MINA LOY VOICING THE FLUID ...

Examining closely the intersection of Continental theories of difference and a predominantly
American ethic of diversity  the book uses phenomenology and interdisciplinary study to
investigate female embodiment in Mina Loy¿s poetic and visual work. It contends that Loy¿s
female embodied subjectivity is enacted in the mode of a subject-in-process  forever active in
the transformation of materiality  intercorporeality  visuality and ideology. It shows that the
representation of a forcefully fluid and unfetished female body endows Loy and her contemporary
Surrealist women artists with the necessary tool to redefine the rigid ethics and aesthetics of
existing Surrealism  complicate gender identity and set a new basis for the social sciences. As
it appears both sexed and asexual  corporeal and transcendent  the female body suggests the
impasse of the antagonism between sperm and ovum as well as that of body and mind  with Loy¿s
ardent feminism finally evolving into humanitarian wisdom. The book suggests that even though
Loy¿s work has been traditionally viewed mainly as an instance of modernist rupture  it also
forms a humanitarian feminist poetry that bridges  compensates and heals.

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