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Introductionts. She has missed the last two weeks of class and she has come, I assume, to give me an excuse. I put my papers to the side of the desk and ask her to come in. She sits and starts talking. She wants me to know she has something to tell me. She warns me that I will think she is making it up. She som

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“We are sisters and our survival is mutual”: Audre Lorde and the Connections between Individual and er.. Lorde was, in many ways, a survivor who worked tirelessly to end the many silences in black women’s history. As we turn now from tracing Sexton’s individual trauma of childhood sexual abuse to examining the connections between individual and collective experiences of trauma in Audre Lorde’s lif

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“Una Herida Abierta”: The Border as Wound in Gloria Anzaldúa’s nn Allen, have all referred to Anzaldúa’s work as a seminal text in both contemporary Chicano/a literary studies and “border studies.”. The work has likewise been hailed by scholars in other disciplines, such as Carl Gutiérrez-Jones in critical legal studies, Oscar J. Martínez in sociology, Ruth Beh

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Healing from Awakened Dreams: Anzaldúa as Individual and Collective WitnessNow we will examine Anzaldúa’s writing, which shows how witnessing is necessary on both individual and collective levels. As we saw in chapter 3, Anzaldúa’s writing demonstrates the ways in which traumatic history continues to affect the inheritors of that history both individually and collectively.

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“I wish to enter her like a dream”: Anne Sexton and the Prophecy of Healingn be recognized. Likewise, Sexton’s spiritual poetry can be read, only now, for its important and visionary qualities. I will show how Sexton not only struggled alone to make sense of her pain, but also how she managed, alone, to create a vision of healing from her pain. Recent critics, given the be

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“This Kind of Hope”: Anne Sexton and the Language of Survivalshe? As we will see, many critics point out that Sexton’s life ended in suicide and they take this as evidence to support their own negative assessment of Sexton’s life and work. But the distinction between life and work, which we explored in the first chapter, must be attended to again here, as we

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Drawing Strength from Our Mothers: Tapping the Roots of Black Women’s Historyterrible history?”. Lorde’s own writings can be read as an answer to this very question. In this chapter, I will continue to analyze the historical and conceptual splits between spirituality and sexuality in Western culture that we saw addressed in Sexton’s poetry. I will show how Lorde’s writing re