Sappho Is Burning
Sappho Is Burning To know all we know about Sappho is to know little. How is it then, Page duBois asks, that this poet has come to signify so much? Her poetry, dating from the seventh century B.C.E.,…
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Sappho Is Burning
To know all we know about Sappho is to know little. How is it then, Page duBois asks, that this poet has come to signify so much? Her poetry, dating from the seventh century B.C.E., comes to us in fragments, her biography as speculation.
Sappho is beyond contemporary categories, inhabiting a space outside of reductively linear accounts of our common history. Sappho Is Burning offers a new reading of this archaic lesbian poet that acknowledges the poet's distance and difference from us and stresses Sappho's inassimilability into our narratives about the Greeks, literary history, philosophy, the history of sexuality, the psychoanalytic subject.In Sappho is Burning, duBois reads Sappho as a disruptive figure at the very origin of our story of Western civilization. She is a woman, but also an aristocrat, a Greek, but one turned toward Asia, a poet who writes as a
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