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We Heal from Memory - by C Steele (Paperback)

We Heal from Memory - by  C Steele (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"We Heal From Memory" shows how poetry allows us to witness to and heal from traumatic histories, both individual and collective.<BR><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>CASSIE PREMO STEELE teaches Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina.

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