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I Is A Long Memoried Woman, a collection by Guyanese poetess Grace Nichols, was first published in 1983 and a winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Nichols’ work develops the story of an anonymous African-Caribbean woman as she recounts the cruelty of slavery and its crippling effects on body, mind, and spirit. The narrator’s story is told in a rich language, which compliments the form to result in a rhythmic musicality reminiscent of spiritual slave songs.The collection of poems is divided into five sections, each an extended snapshot of the narrator’s life, and provides a view on slavery that cannot be delivered through a textbook, such as African compliance for the slave trade and being raped and impregnated by her slaveholder.
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I Is A Long-memoried Woman, Grace Nichols
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- Publicado en
- 1999
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- Título
- I Is A Long-memoried Woman
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Grace Nichols
- Editorial
- Karnak House
- Publicado en
- 1999
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN10
- 0907015670
- ISBN13
- 9780907015673
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Poesía, Clásicos, Escuela, Lectura obligatoria
- Calificación
- 4 de 5
- Descripción
- I Is A Long Memoried Woman, a collection by Guyanese poetess Grace Nichols, was first published in 1983 and a winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Nichols’ work develops the story of an anonymous African-Caribbean woman as she recounts the cruelty of slavery and its crippling effects on body, mind, and spirit. The narrator’s story is told in a rich language, which compliments the form to result in a rhythmic musicality reminiscent of spiritual slave songs.The collection of poems is divided into five sections, each an extended snapshot of the narrator’s life, and provides a view on slavery that cannot be delivered through a textbook, such as African compliance for the slave trade and being raped and impregnated by her slaveholder.