RITA DOVE¿S: Cultural Cosmopolitanism

Rita Dove is one of the most linguistically gifted poet of African ¿ American Literature. She served as the poet laureate of the united states. For her Book ¿Thomas and Beulah¿ she won the Pulitzer Prize. This book examines Rita Dove¿s gradual development of her literary career. Dove sees poetry, its dignity, nature and functions, in a qiute different way. ¿The Danker Face of the Earth¿, reveals the evolution of Rita Dove¿s cosmopolitan vision. Dove¿s awareness of the conflict between Afro ¿ modernism and black nationalism is conveyed in several of her early writings. Dove¿s negotiation of cultural afflication and art coalesce is seen in her early short story ¿The Spray Paint King¿ which might be termed her portrait of a contemporary young black artist as a cultural mulatto. This book also deals with miscegenation, primal scene and incest motif in Dove¿s verse drama ¿The Darker Face of the Earth¿. ¿The Yellow House On The Corner¿, in traduces Dove¿s cosmopolitanism in the figure of the cultural mulatto. Dove¿s ¿Museum¿ is an aesthetic extension of her cosmopolitanism.