A Map of Hope: Women's Writing on Human Rights : an International Literary AnthologyMarjorie Agosín Rutgers University Press, 1999 - 369 The first international anthology to explore women's human rights from a literary perspective. More than half a century after the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, women throughout the world still struggle for social and political justice. Many fight back with the only tools of resistance they possess-words. A Map of Hope presents a collection of 77 extraordinary literary works documenting the ways women writers have spoken out about human rights issues. Writers young and old, known and unknown, explore the dimensions of terror, the unspeakable atrocities of war, and the possibilities of resistance and refusal against all odds. Their poems, essays, memoirs, and brief histories examine issues that affect the condition of women in war, prison camps, exile, and as victims of domestic and political violence. A Map of Hope presents diverse women writers who have created a literature of global consciousness and justice. Their works give a face, an image, and a human dimension to the dehumanization of human rights violations. The collection allows readers to hear voices that have decided to make a difference. It goes beyond geography and ethnic groups; writers from around the globe are united by the universal dimensions of horror and deprivation, as well as the unique common struggle for justice and solidarity. |
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Anna Akhmatova Russia Dedication | 12 |
Aung San Suu Kyi Burma Freedom from Fear | 80 |
Charlotte Delbo France Auschwitz | 91 |
Luisa Valenzuela Argentina The Censors | 107 |
Adrienne Rich USA North American Time | 116 |
Angelina MuñizHuberman Mexico The Prisoner | 124 |
Nelly Sachs GermanySweden A Dead Child Speaks | 139 |
Anna Swir Poland My Father Would Recall | 147 |
Ana Pizarro Chile The Moon the Wind the Year the Day | 230 |
Tatyana Mamonova Russia Exile | 239 |
Judith Ortíz Cofer USA Nada | 250 |
Fatima Mernissi Morocco My Harem Frontiers | 259 |
Carolina María de Jesus Brazil Child of the Dark | 265 |
Meena Alexander IndiaUSA Language and Shame | 274 |
Some Rememberings | 280 |
Gītā Chattopadhyay India The Ritual of Sati | 286 |
May Opitz Germany The Break | 158 |
Yona Wallach Israel My Father and My Mother Went | 169 |
Ursula Duba Germany The Child of the Enemy | 176 |
Diana DerHovanessian ArmeniaUSA Diaspora | 186 |
Agate Nesaule LatviaUSA The Aftermath | 192 |
Eva Hoffman PolandCanada Exile | 202 |
Claribel Alegría El Salvador Packing My Bags | 209 |
Demetria Martínez USA Mother Tongue | 220 |
Anne Frank GermanyHolland Diary | 299 |
Victoria Theodorou Greece The Trikeri Journal | 307 |
Grace Akello Uganda Encounter | 314 |
Petra Kelly Germany E F Schumacher Memorial Lecture | 316 |
Agate Nesaule LatviaUSA The Reciters | 335 |
Claribel Alegría El Salvador The Writers Commitment | 348 |
Copyrights and Permissions | 363 |
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