Barbara Noda Explained
| Barbara Noda |
| Birth Date: | 14 January 1953 |
| Occupation: | Poet |
| Nationality: | American |
| Genre: | Poetry |
Barbara Noda (January 14, 1953), is a third generation Japanese American poet.[1] Noda draws upon her experience as a Japanese American Lesbian and Feminism, and also advocates for LGBT rights in the San Francisco Bay Area.[2] [3]
Career
She is a contributor to the renowned feminist collection, This Bridge Called My Back.[4] She wrote the passage in section four of This Bridge Called My Back entitled Lowriding Through the Women's Movement.[5]
In 1979, she published a collection of poems entitled Strawberries that was published by Shameless Hussy Press.[6] Joy Parks wrote in The Body Politic that Strawberries "combines a passion for the music of language and a need for simplicity in art, a concept rooted within the poet's cultural heritage". She argues the poems in this collection "run the risk of sounding naive because they do not attempt to dazzle the reader with clever imagery, but depend on the simple sounds of the language to pose their message":your outstretched armsand your first whisperare all I know of morning"The simple language allows the poet to show herself more closely in the poem. The distancing techniques of more complicated devices would distill Noda's message and weaken the work". Parks opines that Noda may not be the "poet for everyone", but her poetry is "important for readers interested in the purity of language and those tired of intellectualized polemics".[7]
In June 1981, the Asian American Theater Company in San Francisco presented Noda's one-act play Aw Shucks, about three stereotypical women devoted to pleasure, money and spirituality.[8]
See also
Further reading
Notes and References
- Web site: Noda, Barbara. 2021-11-10. Encyclopedia.com.
- Wong . Sau-ling C. . Santa Ana . Jeffrey J. . Gender and sexuality in Asian American literature . . Autumn 1999 . 25 . 1 . 171–226 . 10.1086/495418 . 0097-9740 . .
- News: Mendenhall . George . New Gay Center Funding Before Board . . November 9, 1978 . 8 . 23 . 10 .
- Book: Moraga, Cherríe . Anzaldúa, Gloria. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. November 2021. 978-1-4384-8827-1. 1276792564.
- Lew . Janey . A Politics of Meeting: Reading Intersectional Indigenous Feminist Praxis in Lee Maracle's Sojourners and Sundogs . . 2017 . 38 . 1 . 225–259 . 10.1353/fro.2017.a653267 . .
- Book: Davidson . Cathy N. . Wagner-Martin . Linda . Ammons . Elizabeth . Asian-American Writing . 1995 . Oxford University Press . 9780195066081 . The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. Asian-American Lesbian Poets.
- Parks . Joy . Particular truths, simple dictions . . November 1982 . 88 . 48 . 0315-3606 . 10389261.
- News: McLeod . Douglas . Gay Asians in Our Society . . May 31, 1981.
