Transgressive acts: Race, gender and class in the poetry of Carolina Maria de Jesus and Miriam Alves

From: Afro - Hispanic Review | Date: April 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

For women, the act of writing is a complex endeavor that requires a careful balance between finding one's own language and using tools marked by the priorities and limitations of another's discourse-many times a male-centered one. As Trinh Minh-ha states in Woman, Native, Other: "As a focal point of cultural consciousness and social change, writing weaves into language the complex relations of a subject caught between the problems of race and gender and the practice of literature as the very place where social alienation is thwarted differently according to each specific context" (6). What ...

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