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We Heal from Memory: Sexton, Lorde, Anzaldua, and the Poetry of Witness  
Author: Cassie Premo Steele
ISBN: 0312233426
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Book 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.



About the Author
Cassie Premo Steele teaches Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina.





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.

FROM THE CRITICS

Booknews

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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