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catalog abstract ""Through an examination of the poetry of Anne Sexton, Audre Lorde, and Gloria Anzaldus, 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. As Cassie Premo Steele demonstrates, the poetry of Sexton, Lorde, and Anzaldua allows us to witness and to heal from such disparate traumatic events because the "evidence" is not to be found in the events themselves but in the survivors' painful reaction to having survived." "It is not the event itself that determines whether it is traumatic; it is the way that the survivor survives such violence by not experiencing it in the normal way we experience and remember. This is why poetry allows survivors to witness others' survival: poetry, like trauma, takes images, feelings, rhythms, sounds, and the physical sensations of the body as evidence. It is in attending to this "evidence" that we may realize that not only women, but all of us - men, women, and children - are hurt by the horror of violence, and such witnessing leads to the realization that we do not have to continue to be either the victims or the perpetrators of such violence if we heal from memory."--BOOK JACKET.".
catalog contributor b12050977.
catalog created "2000.".
catalog date "2000".
catalog date "2000.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
catalog description ""Through an examination of the poetry of Anne Sexton, Audre Lorde, and Gloria Anzaldus, 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. As Cassie Premo Steele demonstrates, the poetry of Sexton, Lorde, and Anzaldua allows us to witness and to heal from such disparate traumatic events because the "evidence" is not to be found in the events themselves but in the survivors' painful reaction to having survived." "It is not the event itself that determines whether it is traumatic; it is the way that the survivor survives such violence by not experiencing it in the normal way we experience and remember. This is why poetry allows survivors to witness others' survival: poetry, like trauma, takes images, feelings, rhythms, sounds, and the physical sensations of the body as evidence. It is in attending to this "evidence" that we may realize that not only women, but all of us - men, women, and children - are hurt by the horror of violence, and such witnessing leads to the realization that we do not have to continue to be either the victims or the perpetrators of such violence if we heal from memory."--BOOK JACKET.".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-215) and index.".
catalog description "Introduction: We Heal From Memory: Sexton, Lorde, Anzaldua and The Poetry of Witness -- "My night mind saw such strange happenings": Anne Sexton and Childhood Sexual Trauma -- "We are sisters and our survival is mutual": Audre Lorde and the Connections between Individual and Collective Trauma -- "Una Herida Abierta": The Border as Wound in Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera -- "This Kind of Hope": Anne Sexton and the Language of Survival -- "My eyes are always hungry and remembering": Audre Lorde and the Poetry of Witness -- Healing from Awakened Dreams: Anzaldua as Individual and Collective Witness -- "I wish to enter her like a dream": Anne Sexton and the Prophecy of Healing -- Drawing Strength from Our Mothers: Tapping the Roots of Black Women's History -- Grinding the Bones to Create Anew: Gloria Anzaldua's Mestiza Mythology -- Conclusion: The Emperor Wears No Clothes -- Anne Sexton -- Audre Lorde -- Gloria Anzaldua -- Trauma Studies.".
catalog extent "x, 221 p. ;".
catalog identifier "0312233426 (hardback)".
catalog issued "2000".
catalog issued "2000.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave,".
catalog spatial "United States".
catalog subject "811/.54099287 21".
catalog subject "American poetry 20th century History and criticism.".
catalog subject "American poetry Women authors History and criticism.".
catalog subject "Anzaldúa, Gloria Criticism and interpretation.".
catalog subject "Healing in literature.".
catalog subject "Lorde, Audre Criticism and interpretation.".
catalog subject "Memory in literature.".
catalog subject "PS151 .S74 2000".
catalog subject "Sexton, Anne Criticism and interpretation.".
catalog subject "Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974 Criticism and interpretation.".
catalog subject "Victims in literature.".
catalog subject "Victims of crimes in literature.".
catalog subject "Violence in literature.".
catalog subject "Witnesses in literature.".
catalog subject "Women and literature United States History 20th century.".
catalog subject "Women in literature.".
catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: We Heal From Memory: Sexton, Lorde, Anzaldua and The Poetry of Witness -- "My night mind saw such strange happenings": Anne Sexton and Childhood Sexual Trauma -- "We are sisters and our survival is mutual": Audre Lorde and the Connections between Individual and Collective Trauma -- "Una Herida Abierta": The Border as Wound in Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera -- "This Kind of Hope": Anne Sexton and the Language of Survival -- "My eyes are always hungry and remembering": Audre Lorde and the Poetry of Witness -- Healing from Awakened Dreams: Anzaldua as Individual and Collective Witness -- "I wish to enter her like a dream": Anne Sexton and the Prophecy of Healing -- Drawing Strength from Our Mothers: Tapping the Roots of Black Women's History -- Grinding the Bones to Create Anew: Gloria Anzaldua's Mestiza Mythology -- Conclusion: The Emperor Wears No Clothes -- Anne Sexton -- Audre Lorde -- Gloria Anzaldua -- Trauma Studies.".
catalog title "We heal from memory : Sexton, Lorde, Anzaldúa, and the poetry of witness / Cassie Premo Steele.".
catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
catalog type "History. fast".
catalog type "text".