Daughter Of The Earth: A Novel - Softcover

Walker, Alice; Smedley, Agnes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0935312684 ISBN 13: 9780935312683

Verlag: Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Smedley Agnes

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Críticas:

"Agnes Smedley's memories tasted of hunger."
--The New York Times Book Review

"A tale of American disinheritance told from the inside out, [this novel] is essentially about Smedley's struggle to come to spiritual consciousness in a world of unimaginable cruelty and deprivation. . . An entire society is limned in the pages of this book. . . The power of Daughter of Earth lies in the erotic heat which informs every page of the book, erotic in the original Greek sense of life force."
--The Village Voice

"Daughter of Earth is a precious, priceless book. In it Agnes Smedley lays bare her soul in an effort to understand and heal her life. In the process, she . . . connects herself, as if there were no other options, to all people of her class and vision, regardless of color or sex. It is a remarkably rare affirmation."
--Alice Walker, from the Foreword

"This moving novel is both a catharsis through which Smedley purges the pain in her own experience by shaping it in language, and a political act inspiring others to take up the struggle for change. Anticipating most of the issues of the modern women's liberation movement, Daughter of Earth has emerged as one of the major texts of twentieth-century feminism."
--Deborah Rosenfelt, Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies, San Francisco State University

Reseña del editor:

Happiness seems elusive to a young woman driven by a need to assert her independence in a sexist world

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0935312684
• ISBN 13: 9780935312683
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 426