Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (Mouthmark): 10

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In the absence of flowery language, unrhymed verses offer clarity that abounds in imagery, metaphors, and a linguistic sensibility to the subject at hand. I argue that South African women poets use their art to re-vision some of the central constructs of patriarchal mythology, including the association of women with the body and the irrational, and men with the mind and logic. Bagi yang sudah menikah, mungkin akan berpendapat bahwa sayang rasanya untuk memutus hubungan yang telah terjalin bertahun-tahun. The scope is quite wide, covering thoughts, quotes and book excerpts from places as culturally divergent as China, the UK and Nigeria.

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As her collection is mainly focused on herself and the women of her family (her mother, her sister, her grandmother, her friends she grew up with etc. In the wake of the western critical theories with their antifoundational and anti-essentialist notions, what has been commonly accepted as essential 'knowledge' is now subject of hermeneutic reassessment.

The Fall 2014 issue of the Harvard Asia Quarterly focuses on Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Asia.

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth” A feminist (PDF) “Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth” A feminist

I’m not rating this 5 stars because I didn’t personally feel impacted by it, but I still think her writing is solid, mature, and much stronger than other poets I’ve read. I further posit that poets and poems that engage students may open the way into initially "less relevant" yet ultimately rewarding poems, while remaining important objects of study in themselves. The poems are also about reality, the horrors that some people have to face in a word driven by war.

Nonetheless, published autobiographical texts remain an underutilized resource that can offer further insight into the influence of readers and the literary market in shaping the rape story.