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by: Cassie Premo Steele
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54099287
EAN: 9780312233426
ISBN: 0312233426
Label: Palgrave Macmillan
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: November 04, 2000
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Sales Rank: 2084184
Studio: Palgrave Macmillan
Editorial Review:
Product 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.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Very Interesting and insightful
Anyone who is interested in women's studies and/or poetry should get this book. Steele looks at the writers' bodies of work as methods of survival in the face of trauma, institutionalized racism and misogyny that permeates our culture.
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