Randall I Never Left Home

Poet, Feminist, Revolutionary
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0761-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

In I Never Left Home, poet and revolutionary Margaret Randall tells the moving, captivating, and astonishing story of her life, from her childhood in New York to joining the Sandanista movement in Nicaragua, from escaping political repression in Mexico to raising a family and teaching college.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Randall, Margaret

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. How This Book Came to Be 1
2. Where It All Started: Before My Birth and the Early Years, 1936–1947 5
3. The Landscape of Desire: High School and Beyond, 1947–1958 41
4. The Picture Plane: New York, 1958–1961 72
5. Where Stones Weep: Mexico, 1961–1969 114
6. Interlude: Escape 168
7. First Free Territory: Cuba, 1969–1980 181
8. Volcano: Nicaragua, 1980–1984 217
9. Home: 1984 and Beyond 247
Published Books 297
Notes 305
Index 315

Über Autor(innen)

Margaret Randall is a poet, essayist, oral historian, translator, memoirist, and photographer who has published over 150 books of poetry and prose, including Exporting Revolution: Cuba's Global Solidarity; Haydée Santamaría, Cuban Revolutionary: She Led by Transgression; and Che on My Mind, all also published by Duke University Press. Randall was awarded the Poet of Two Hemispheres Prize by Poesía en Paralelo Cero in Quito, Ecuador, and Cuba's Haydée Santamaría medal, and the University of New Mexico gave her an honorary doctorate of letters, all in 2019. She is also the 2020 recipient of the AWP George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature. In addition to giving seminars and workshops throughout the United States and Latin America, Randall has taught at the University of New Mexico, Macalester College, the University of Delaware, and Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Randall lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.