Reviews

Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean by Jennifer Browdy

melimels's review

Beautiful message made about the latin and Caribbean experience. Although not completely finished, I ended up tabbing several essays and being introduced to incredibly gifted black, latin and queer writers that have masterfully encapsulated the Caribbean experience in a white world.

hailbo's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

curlzymas's review

5.0

Honestly this has been one of the most infuriating, invigorating, fulfilling compilations of short stories I have ever read. Great job to the editor who arranged the sequence of stories.

inquiry_from_an_anti_library's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

Overview:

This book is a collection of writing and art, from various perspectives and regions, seeking to understand injustice.  To resolve injustice, injustice has to be made overt.  What the authors do, is make injustice salient, observable.  Enabling everyone to understand what injustice means in practice.  The lived experiences.  After making injustice overt and recognizable, can actions be taken to rectify the injustices.  Many started to write, or do artistic work, to give voice to their suffering.  Writing to avenge silence.  Writing to make sense of the world.  From writing and art, the individuals obtain what the world does not give.  It takes more than blaming everything on others to rectify the situation.  It takes activism.  Taking responsibility for the situation, and then trying to improve upon it.  Traumatic experiences can be very different, but victims tend to be scapegoats for projected fears.  Culture is a dynamic process in which peoples are not passive bystanders, but active participates in the evolving social experience.  

Caveats?

There are a lot of traumatic experiences within the book, making it emotionally difficult to read continuously.  Each chapter is a different author, a different voice.  Creating a lack of flow. 

phillipp's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

amckiereads's review

4.0

A really interesting collection of essays and poetry, republished. Some are from the 80s, some more recent, but all are fantastic. It is divided into three sections: Re-envisioning History, The Politics of Language and Identity, and Strategies of Resistance.

duvsbooks's review

5.0

The poetry in this is my absolute favorite in the whole world. I love the different authors. I love the words used. I love the themes. I love everything about every single poem. They are powerful. Made me stop in my tracks. I enjoyed the short stories as well, but the poems really made this book for me.

svetyas4's review

5.0

A really great collection with thought-provoking pieces and a great blend of prose & poetry.

tameeka's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.0

An amazing essay collection curated to include Latin American, Caribbean, and American women writers. It gives just enough of a taste for a newbie to research these historical facts more. This book is also a reminder of the devastation these women faced and the strength of their perseverance.