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Eighteen women are featured in this powerful anthology on art, feminism, and activism in Latin America and the Caribbean. Women Writing Resistance unearths an emerging tradition of Latin American and Caribbean women writers who, with increasing urgency, are writing in the service of social justice and against the entrenched patriarchal, imperialistic, racist, and exploitative regimes that dominated their countries for centuries.Many of the women in this collection have been thrust out into the Latino-Caribbean diaspora by violent forces that make differences in language and culture seem less significant than connections based on resistance to inequality and oppression. It is these connections that Women Writing Resistance highlights, presenting "conversations" on the potential of writing to confront injustice. The authors explore a number of issues, such as: how are the different experiences of women of European, African, or Indian descent expressed? How has the experience of migration and return been addressed? What kind of contacts have Latin American and Caribbean women writers had with their male counterparts? What has been the impact of globalization on women of the region?This mixed-genre anthology, a resource for readers and teachers of Latin American and Caribbean women's literature, demonstrates and enacts how women can collaborate across class, race and nationality, and illustrates the value of this solidarity in the ongoing struggles for human rights and social justice in the Americas.Contributors: Marjorie Agosin, Julia Alvarez, Gloria Anzaldua, Ruth Behar, Rosario Castellanos, Michelle Cliff, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Rigoberta Menchu, Cherrie Moraga, Aurora Levins Morales, Alicia Partnoy, Raquel Partnoy, Elena Poniatowska, Margaret Randall, Ruth Irupe Sanabria, Emma Sepulveda. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This book is a collection of writing and art, from various perspectives and regions, seeking to understand injustice. To resolve injustice, injustice has to be made overt. What the authors do, is make injustice salient, observable. Enabling everyone to understand what injustice means in practice. The lived experiences. After making injustice overt and recognizable, can actions be taken to rectify the injustices. Many started to write, or do artistic work, to give voice to their suffering. Writing to avenge silence. Writing to make sense of the world. From writing and art, the individuals obtain what the world does not give. It takes more than blaming everything on others to rectify the situation. It takes activism. Taking responsibility for the situation, and then trying to improve upon it. Traumatic experiences can be very different, but victims tend to be scapegoats for projected fears. Culture is a dynamic process in which peoples are not passive bystanders, but active participates in the evolving social experience.
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There are a lot of traumatic experiences within the book, making it emotionally difficult to read continuously. Each chapter is a different author, a different voice. Creating a lack of flow. ( )