The feminist phenomenological exploration of Adrienne rich’s diving into the wreck poems : 1971-1972

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Phenomenology, with its roots in Husserlian philosophy, has been expanded within different disciplines.

Recently, a corpus of feminist phenomenological work begins to develop along with an outstanding poetry which investigates the placement of lived-body experience within a particular social structure Phenomenology is feminist as long as it includes concerns related to gendered issues within its field of study.

Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) goes through the same process in giving voice to female experiences by structuring them as inevitable for feminist consciousness.

Diving into the Wreck1971-1972 is the culmination of this new perceptive and the resultant shift of world.

It gives women a new image of themselves through recognizing the contribution of myths to the development of civilization.

two related approaches to the field of feminine writing.

It applies many of Husserlian phenomenological insights and Beauvoir’s feminist phenomenological thoughts on Rich’s Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972.

This collection indicates the poet’s quest to achieve self-actualization and subjectivity by mythologizing the traditional assumptions surrounding gender issues.

Rich advocates women to achieve liberation from oppression within patriarchal mythical system of thought.