Elizabeth Bishop's Pink
dc.contributor.author | Gill, J | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-12T12:43:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-10-09 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article argues for the significance of the colour pink in the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop. While Bishop’s interest in painting, architecture and sculpture has been widely noted, the importance of colour—and the specific resonance of pink—has hitherto been overlooked. I propose that across Bishop’s career, from early New York and Key West poems and drafts through the poetry of Brazil, such as ‘The Armadillo’, to the late great poems, ‘In the Waiting Room’ and finally, and disturbingly, ‘Pink Dog’, shades of pink operate to crucial effect. This is the case even, or especially, where pink is only tacitly registered (see, for example, ‘In the Waiting Room’ where the pink body is strategically covered by ‘gray’ clothes). Whether directly or by allusion, Bishop uses pink to suggest difference, unease and alarm, particularly in relation to gender, sexuality and the temptations and risks of self-exposure. In pursuing the point, I look to representations of pink in contemporary popular culture, to colour theory such as the work of Johannes Itten, and to the psychology and physiology of shame. By tracing the significance of pink, I suggest, we reach a better understanding of Bishop’s aesthetics of self-knowledge, subjectivity and display. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Article hgaa077 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/res/hgaa077 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/122431 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press 2020 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | |
dc.title | Elizabeth Bishop's Pink | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2020-08-12T12:43:14Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0034-6551 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Oxford University Press via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Review of English Studies | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2020-08-11 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2020-08-11 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2020-08-12T11:56:25Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2020-11-24T09:41:27Z | |
refterms.panel | D | en_GB |
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