| Description |
xxix, 369 pages ; 25 cm |
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War and remembrance. Wind and widow / Lê Thi Mây -- The son of man / Natalia Ginzburg -- The war / Marguerite Duras -- A life / Fadwa Tuqan -- An estate of memory / Ilona Karmel -- A war letter / Ferida Durakovic -- My war in four episodes / Susan Rubin Suleiman -- Conversation with a stone / Wislawa Szymborska -- Liberation day / Christa Wolf -- War and memory / June Jordan -- Baghdad diary / Nuha Al Radi -- Object permanence / Dzvinia Orlowsky -- Blind Chinese soldiers / Taiko Hirabayashi -- Deadline / Barbara Kingsolver. Imprisonment and censorship. Dedication ; Prologue / Anna Akhmatova -- Freedom from fear / Aung San Suu Kyi -- The Border Patrol state / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Auschwitz / Charlotte Delbo -- The legend of Miss Sasagawara / Hisaye Yamamoto -- The censors / Luisa Valenzuela -- A window on Soweto / Joyce Sikakane -- North American time / Adrienne Rich -- Piercing the blockade / Nawal El Saadawi -- The prisoner / Angelina Muñiz-Huberman -- Gemütlich / Maria Banus -- Block 4 Barrack 4 "Apt" C / Mitsuye Yamada -- Threads drawn from the heart / Sheila Cassidy -- Childhood. A dead child speaks / Nelly Sachs -- Indian mother / Rosario Castellanos -- On the road at night there stands the man / Dahlia Ravikovitch -- My city: a Hong Kong story / Xi Xi -- My father would recall / Anna Swir -- Child's memory / Eleni Fourtouni -- The storm: a poem in five parts / Meena Alexander -- The break / May Optiz -- I won't christen you / Elsa Spartioti -- My father and my mother went out to hunt / Yona Wallach -- All but my life / Gerda Weissman Klein -- The child of the enemy / Ursula Duba -- A little Arab girl's first day at school / Assia Djebar -- Dotty Noona / Salwa Bakr -- Diaspora / Diana Der-Hovanessian. Exiles and refugees. Song / Muriel Rukeyser -- The aftermath / Agate Nesaule -- Exile / Eva Hoffman -- Packing my bags / Claribel Alegría -- Beauty contest / Janice Mirikitani -- A woman in exile / Mahnaz Afkhami -- Mother tongue / Demetria Martínez -- Bosnia, or what Europe means to us / Slavenka Drakulic -- The moon, the wind, the day, the year / Ana Pizarro -- Border country / Alicia Nitecki -- Exile / Tatyana Mamonova -- Domestic and political violence. War pictures / Carol Dine -- Against the pleasure principle / Saida Hagi-Dirie Herzi -- Nada / Judith Ortíz Cofer -- My harem frontiers / Fatima Mernissi -- Musée des faux arts / Rose Styron -- Female goods / Taslima Nassrin -- Child of the dark / Carolina María de Jesus -- Language and shame / Meena Alexander -- As a blackwoman / Maud Sulter -- The colonel / Carolyn Forché -- Six days: some rememberings / Grace Paley -- The ritual of satī / Gītā Chattopādhyāy. Resistance and refusal. City of fire / Joy Harjo -- The other world that was the world / Nadine Gordimer -- Diary / Anne Frank -- Arriving at the Plaza / Matilde Mellibovsky -- The Trikeri journal / Victoria Theodorou -- The dance in Jinotega / Grace Paley -- Encounter / Grace Akello -- E.F. Schumacher Memorial Lecture / Petra Kelly -- The hour of truth / Isabel Allende -- The reciters / Agate Nesaule -- Justice / Maro Markarian -- The writer's commitment / Claribel Alegría -- world view / Hattie Gossett. |
| Summary |
Contains seventy-seven poems, essays, memoirs, and histories from women writers around the world in which they explore issues of human rights. |
| Subject |
Human rights -- Literary collections.
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Women's rights -- Literary collections.
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Literature -- Women authors.
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Human rights. (OCoLC)fst00963285
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Literature -- Women authors.
(OCoLC)fst01000068
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Women's rights. (OCoLC)fst01178818
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Mensenrechten.
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Vrouwen.
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| Genre/Form |
Literary collections. (OCoLC)fst01423811
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| Added Author |
Agosín, Marjorie.
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| ISBN |
0813526256 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780813526256 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0813526264 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780813526263 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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