ID: 8700  -  Giovanna Covi  -  Trento Type: Text Format: Medium: Essay Extent: 113-124 Identifier: Source: Title: Sentimental Subversion: The Poetics and Politics of Devotion in the Work of Una Marson Subtitle: Alternative: Agents: Creator: Role: Name: Created: Date: Issued in/on: 1997 Language: English Rights: Relation: IsPartOf Qualifier: Kicking Daffodils, Bertram Vicky, ed. Coverage: Place: Edinburgh Time: 1997 Description: Analysis of Marson's love poems included in her first collection Tropic Reveries (1930). Donnell places these sonnets in the context of Jamaican colonial culture to emphasize how their concentration upon romantic love represents the neglected archive of an already marginalized poet. Donnell argues that Marson's staging of female servitude necessitates a consideration of both exclusion and collusion. She demonstrated how these poems employ the conventions of love sonnets and feminine clichés as a camouflage for a politicized and subversive text. In Barthesian terms, she finds Marson capable of recuperating the spectacle of love through a text . . . in which historical and polemical meanings cannot be denied. Subjects: Wo/Men Subjects: Nationalism/Regionalism Subjects: Wo/Men Subjects: Race/Ethnicity Keywords: love Keywords: Jamaica Keywords: desire Keywords: slavery Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, love) Query Subject+Keyword: (Nationalism/Regionalism, Jamaica) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, desire) Query Subject+Keyword: (Race/Ethnicity, slavery) Comment: