A map of hope : women's writings on human rights : an international literary anthology

A map of hope : women's writings on human rights : an international literary anthology /

Contains seventy-seven poems, essays, memoirs, and histories from women writers around the world in which they explore issues of human rights.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Agosín, Marjorie
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1999.
Subjects:
Human rights > Literary collections.
Women's rights > Literary collections.
Literature > Women authors.
Human rights.
Women's rights.
Mensenrechten.
Vrouwen.
Civil rights > Literary collections.
Literature.
Literary collections.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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