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- Title
Digital Choirs: Rupi Kaur and the Multiple, Theatrical Poetess.
- Authors
Madden, Caolan
- Abstract
To describe the Punjabi-Canadian poet and artist Rupi Kaur as "a trending poetess of Instagram", as Sasha Kruger does in a recent essay, is to foreground the insistent femininity of her work and its popularity: Kaur has over four million Instagram followers and, according to her website, eleven million copies of her books have been sold. The collective, public aspect of Poetess theatricality allows us to see new ways in which Poetess performers imagined their relationship to community formation, social life, and political activism. But Kaur's performances in turn might offer us insights into the spectacle and publicity of Poetess theatricality: no real person is a Poetess, but Kaur helps us see how the body of the Poetess performer authorizes and informs the performance.
- Subjects
WOMEN poets; WOMEN of color; WOMEN immigrants; ACTIVISM; YOUNG women; IMAGINATION
- Publication
Victorian Review, 2022, Vol 48, Issue 2, p186
- ISSN
0848-1512
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/vcr.2022.a900620