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

by Cassie Premo Steele

Book Overview

Through an examination of the poetry of Anne Sexton, Audre Lorde, and Gloria Anzald?a, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349629839
• ISBN13: 9781349629831
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"