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We Heal From Memory: Sexton, Lorde, Anzaldúa, and the Poetry of Witness

By Cassie Premo Steele (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Year
2000
ISBN
978-1-349-62983-1, 978-1-137-12313-8
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-12313-8
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11607124 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
X, 221\221
Time added
2016-11-20 09:00:00
general; Twentieth-Century LiteraturePoetry and Poetics; Literary Theory; Cultural Theo

Description

Through an examination of the poetry of Anne Sexton, Audre Lorde, and Gloria Anzaldúa, We Heal From Memory paints a vivid picture of how our culture carries a history of traumatic violence - child sexual abuse, the ownership and enforcement of women's sexuality under slavery, the transmission of violence through generations, and the destruction of non-white cultures and their histories through colonization. According to Cassie Premo Steele, the poetry of Sexton, Lorde, and Anzaldúa allows us to witness and to heal from such disparate traumatic events.

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