Poetics, Politics, and Praxis
Melissa Hussain
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Poetics, Politics, and Praxis

Rereading Audre Lorde and Julia de Burgos

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In this rereading of the two women third-worldpoets -the Puerto-Rican feminist-anticolonial poetJulia de Burgos (1914-1953) and the African-Americanlesbian-feminist poet Audre Lorde(1934-1992)--Melissa Hussain explores the dialecticbetween the political-economic and the cultural inthe site of poetic production. She attempts tounderstand poetry as praxis by undertaking aMarxist-feminist-postcolonial rereading of these twopoets whose works, she argues, are crucial tounderstanding the current local and global conditionsand configurations of imperialism, (neo)colonialism,capitalism, racism and pat...