Looking Within/Mirar Adentro: Selected Poems/Poemas Escogidos, 1954-2000 (African American Life)
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| Management number | 231923122 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | $10.00 | Model Number | 231923122 | ||
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The African Cuban poet Nancy Morejón set out at a young age to explore the beauty and complexities of the life around and within her. Themes of social and political concern, loyalty, friendship and family, African identity, women's experiences, and hope for Cuba's future all found their way into her poems through bold metaphor and tender lyricism. This panoramic anthology, selected from ten volumes of Morejón's work and organized by theme, contains some poems that have already been acclaimed in several languages, others that are less known, and some never before published. Overall they present to Morejón's readership an enhanced, broader, and updated spectrum of her poetry in a Spanish-English edition.Although Morejón does not sympathize as much with intellectualized feminism as with "street" feminism (the kind that erupts with force as it confronts daily life), her poems illuminate issues in women's existence. Without intending to, she has revitalized contemporary Caribbean feminist literary discourse. One can find in her work the tensions between colonizer and colonized, dominator and dominated, and at the same time enjoy the sheer beauty of images depicting suffering, strength, and hope. Read more
| ISBN10 | 081433038X |
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| ISBN13 | 978-0814330388 |
| Edition | Bilingual |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
| Dimensions | 6 x 0.75 x 8.75 inches |
| Item Weight | 1.3 pounds |
| Print length | 368 pages |
| Publication date | December 1, 2002 |
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