We Heal from Memory: Sexton, Lorde, Anzaldúa, and the Poetry of Witness (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349629831)

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: C. Steele
ISBN-10: 1349629839
ISBN-13: 9781349629831
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/02/2001
Pages: 221
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.53d