{"id":16149,"date":"2011-09-08T02:29:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T02:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=16149"},"modified":"2017-04-23T16:54:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T16:54:35","slug":"speaking-from-the-margins-the-voice-of-the-other-in-the-poetry-of-carol-ann-duffy-and-jackie-kay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=16149","title":{"rendered":"Speaking from the Margins: The Voice of the ‘Other’ in the Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking from the Margins: The Voice of the ‘Other’ in the Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Academica Press<\/a>
\n2010-06-15
\n124 pages
\nTrim Size: 6 x 9
\nCloth ISBN: 978-1-933146-92-8\/ 1933146-92-3<\/p>\n

\u00d6zlem Aydin<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Speaking from the Margins: The Voice of the \u2018Other\u2019 in the Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay<\/em> studies Carol Ann Duffy<\/a> and Jackie Kay<\/a> as poets who identify and represent some key forms of \u201cotherness\u201d may take in the British society of the 1980s and the 1990s. Indeed, although Duffy\u2019s poetry is political and concerned with the British society of the 1980s and the 1990s, particularly with the condition of the underprivileged and people pushed to the margins of society as a result of Thatcherite<\/a> policies, criticism of her poetry is more concerned with her feminist representation of gender in her work. Thus, it is important that her poetry of the 1980s and the 1990s is recognised as a poetry of the \u201cother\u201d as Duffy in this poetry gives specifically a panorama of Thatcherite Britain through the voice of the \u201cother\u201d. Similarly, this thesis analyses Jackie Kay\u2019s poetry as a poetry which is critical not only of Britain but also is particularly concerned with the condition of the racial and the sexual other in the 1980s and the 1990s Britain. Although \u201cThe Adoption Papers\u201d has often been discussed and analysed mostly by focusing on the issues of identity and adoption, \u201cSevere Gale 8\u201d, the sequel to \u201cThe Adoption Papers\u201d, Other Lovers<\/em> and Off Colour<\/em> have not been the focus of much academic study from the aspect of the voice given to the racial and the sexual other.<\/p>\n

This research monograph studies Jackie Kay and Carol Ann Duffy as poets representing the voice of the \u201cother\u201d in the 1980s and the 1990s British society because there is a considerable lack of criticism on this particular aspect of their poetry. The works of these two poets are part of contemporary British poetry in which as Kennedy puts it \u201cthe heterogeneity of the \u2018ex-centric\u2019, the marginal and the peripheral is raided in order to revitalise and refurbish the homogeneity of the centre. Diversity is used to underwrite a new uniformity\u201d (\u201cMapping Value\u201d).<\/p>\n