We Heal from Memory: Sexton, Lorde, Anzaldua, and the Poetry of Witness FROM THE PUBLISHER
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.
Author Biography: Cassie Premo Steele teaches Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina.
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In the poems of Anne Sexton, Audre Lorde, and Gloria Anzalda, Steele (comparative literature, U. of South Carolina) detects how western culture carries a history of traumatic violence such as 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. Some of the chapters are published separately. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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