We Heal from Memory: Sexton, Corde, Anzaldua, and the Poetry of Witness

ISBN-13: 9781349629831 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 221 str.

Cassie Premo Steele; Cassie Premo Steele; C. Steele

Opis

"We Heal From Memory" shows how poetry allows us to witness to and heal from traumatic histories, both individual and collective.

Spis treści

'My night mind saw such strange happenings': Anne Sexton and Childhood Sexual Trauma 'We are sisters and our survival is mutual': Audre Lorde and the Connections between Individual and Collective Trauma 'Una Herida Abierta': The Border as Wound in Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera 'This Kind of Hope': Anne Sexton and the Language of Survival 'My eyes are always hungry and remembering': Audre Lorde and the Poetry of Witness Healing from Awakened Dreams: Anzaldúa as Individual and Collective Witness 'I wish to enter her like a dream': Anne Sexton and the Prophecy of Healing Drawing Strength from Our Mothers: Tapping the Roots of Black Women's History Grinding the Bones to Create Anew: Gloria Anzaldúa's Mestiza Mythology

O autorze

CASSIE PREMO STEELE teaches Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina.