Carolyn Forché (Identities and Issues in Literature)
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Carolyn Forché’s interest in responding to human oppression can be traced to her early childhood in Detroit. When she was five she discovered a series of photographs in Life magazine documenting the liberation of the Nazi death camps. Disturbed by these pictures of immense suffering, Forché hid them between her mattresses and returned to them throughout her childhood.
Later, she was affected even more profoundly by war. At nineteen Forché married James Turner, who, like a number of her high school classmates, fought in Vietnam and suffered...
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